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Tajikistan Tajikistan: Child Soldiers Global Report 2001 From the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers Tajikistan’s civil war which ended in 1997 reportedly involved the use of child soldiers under 18 by both sides. It is not known if there are any under-18s in government armed forces due to a lack of information on minimum voluntary recruitment age. Islamist opposition groups, known to use child soldiers in the past, are still active in the country. June 12, 2001 Tajikistan: Landmine Monitor Report 2000 Key developments since March 1999: Tajikistan acceded to the Mine Ban Treaty on 12 October 1999. The treaty entered into force for Tajikistan on 1 April 2000. A Russian official has said Tajikistan is possibly reviewing its decision to join the treaty. Five years of civil war in Tajikistan were formally brought to a close on 27 June 1997, when a peace accord was signed between the government and the opposition, the United Tajik Opposition (UTO), though fighting erupted again in 1998. Landmines were used throughout the fighting. In 1999, progress toward peace led to the UTO officially declaring that it would disband its armed units.176 In May 2000, it was reported that the United Nations would likely be announcing the end of its peacekeeping mission in the country.177 August 1, 2000 Tajikistan: Freedom of Expression Still Threatened Despite legislation protecting freedom of speech and the press in Tajikistan, in practice freedom of expression is severely limited. For six years major opposition parties and their newspapers were banned. The government of Tajikistan continues to employ a variety of tactics to limit political content in the remaining media. HRW Index No.: D1114 November 1, 1999 Purchase online Tajikistan -- Leninabad: Crackdown in the North Five years of civil war in Tajikistan were formally brought to a close on June 27, 1997, when a peace accord was signed between the government and the United Tajik Opposition (UTO). A major force, however, was left out of the peace negotiations: the political opposition based in Tajikistan's northern region, Leninabad. HRW Index No.: D1002 April 1, 1998 Purchase online Tajik Refugees in Northern Afghanistan: Obstacles to Repatriation In 1992, a devastating civil war in Tajikistan led to the deaths of more than 20,000 (with some estimates as high as 50,000) and created more than 800,000 displaced persons and refugees. Although the human rights situation in Tajikistan has in many respects steadily improved since the end of the war in December 1992, fighting between the Tajik government and opposition forces continues sporadically HRW Index No.: D806 May 1, 1996 Return to Tajikistan Continued Regional and Ethnic Tensions Two years after a bloody and devastating civil war, the human rights situation in Tajikistan remains precarious. Since the spring of 1993, refugees and internally displaced persons have returned to their villages in the southern province of Khatlon, from which the largest number of people were displaced following the war. HRW Index No.: D709 May 1, 1995 Political Prisoners in Tajikistan In this report, we called upon the government of Tajikistan to release all individuals imprisoned or detained for the peaceful expression of political views, and to provide new and fair trials to those convicted of a crime in the absence of internationally guaranteed rights to due process. HRW Index No.: D614 October 1, 1994 Human Rights in Tajikistan On the Eve of Presidential Elections In its 19th session, held on July 20-21, 1994, the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Tajikistan voted to hold presidential elections and a constitutional referendum on September 25, 1994. We support the transition to a democratic government in Tajikistan, but believed at the time that conditions in Tajikistan did not permit free and democratic elections HRW Index No.: D613 October 1, 1994 Human Rights in Tajikistan In the Wake of Civil War During a six-month period in 1992, Tajikistan’s civil war claimed as many as 20,000 lives and displaced over 400,000 people. The government of Tajikistan has taken certain steps toward re-establishing law and order in its troubled country; at the same time, however, it has broken its international human rights commitments and tolerated gross violations of human rights, including summary executions, disappearances, “informal prisons” and ethnic-regional discrimination. HRW Index No.: ISBN 1-56432-119-3 December 1, 1993 Purchase online Conflict in the Soviet Union Tadzhikistan An analysis of the Soviet army’s use of lethal force against initially peaceful protestors in the Soviet Central Asian republic of Tadzhikistan in mid-February 1990, this report is based on numerous interviews with local sources conducted in the republic in May and November 1991. HRW Index No.: ISBN 1-56432-028-6 August 1, 1991
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