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100+ Dead After Border Clashes Between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan

by Cullen McCue


Dozens of people have been killed after border clashes between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan erupted last week. Clashes erupted around the Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan border on Friday, with both sides accusing one another of using tanks, mortars, rocket artillery and drones against both civilian and military targets.

A cease-fire was ultimately declared later that day, which has held to some degree. The two Central Asian neighbors have both accused the other of violating the agreement, however.

On Sunday, Kyrgyzstan announced an additional 12 fatalities as a result of the border clashes. This brings the nation’s official death toll to 36, though the number has been steadily rising on both sides of the border as the respective governments survey damage…


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