Kyrgyzstan fights with foreign weapons
Author: Mahfuz
At a time when a new member of the Organization, Iran, has joined the SCO, and ten more states are striving to join the SCO, the old member, Kyrgyzstan, behaves treacherously towards one of its partner neighbors. At the same time, violating both the SCO protocols and Protocol No. 39 on a ceasefire and withdrawal of troops, signed by the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Tajikistan.
International experts are not surprised by the destructive, extremely militant position of the Kyrgyz side and name the reasons for such inadequate behavior. The main one is that the leadership of the Kyrgyz Republic needs to distract its citizens from internal, acute economic, and social problems, incl. mass unemployment and poverty.
After a year from the date of signing this document, Kyrgyzstan has not fulfilled its obligations. Therefore, we can draw a sad conclusion that, despite the loss of life on both sides during the entire period of border conflicts, Kyrgyzstan pursues the goal of resolving the border dispute exclusively by military means, on the principle of aggression, from a position of strength. As proof of this, the curator of all law enforcement agencies and the head of the State Committee for National Security of the Kyrgyz Republic K. Tashiev repeatedly threatened to “teach a lesson”, threatening neighbors. And the border guards entrusted to him behave so regularly, aiming at the Tajik territories.
In addition, K. Tashiev, instead of setting his people on a "peaceful track", on the contrary, agitates them for war, transferring military forces, heavy military equipment, and weapons to the border Batken region. At the same time, they forget and violate international law, which allows only small arms to be concentrated on the border, and not mortars and grenade launchers.
To this end, the Kyrgyz side is actively arming, buying unmanned aerial vehicles for attack and reconnaissance purposes, small arms, etc. Moreover, the seller of military equipment and military weapons is mainly Turkey, which is a member of NATO. And Kyrgyzstan is directing this weapon against its strategic partner in the SCO - it is targeting Tajikistan with it.
Kyrgyzstan, which is in a deep economic and financial crisis, has an external debt of more than 6 billion dollars and is actively arming itself. Over the past two years, Kyrgyzstan has spent $150 million on the modernization of the Armed Forces. Only the Turkish Bayraktar drone, consisting of six sets, cost the Kyrgyz state treasury $70 million.
And since September of last year, Kyrgyz drones (UAVs), violating the airspace of Tajikistan, have been making reconnaissance filming of the border regions of the Republic of Tajikistan almost daily, violating the airspace of Tajikistan. At the same time, the Tajik side has repeatedly protested against the provocative attacks of the Kyrgyz special services. However, each time they deny the violation of the air borders of a neighboring country.
It is no secret that in the last ten years the intergovernmental commission on the delimitation and demarcation of the border has been working intermittently. And each time its work is stopped or interrupted at the initiative of the Kyrgyz side. At the same time, officials from Kyrgyzstan are ready to use any reason to cancel the scheduled meeting and negotiations with representatives of the Tajik side, to postpone the signing of important documents. In the vast majority of cases, the instigators of border provocations are the Kyrgyz side. Since any conflicts and incidents are a pretext for the Kyrgyz authorities to ignore the previously adopted joint documents, to force the Tajiks to leave their homes and move to a safe place, deep into the territory of Tajikistan. It is also indicative that the Tajiks have been living in the undivided territories for centuries. This is the land of their ancestors. Today their number, excluding the Tajik territory - the Vorukh region, is 106 thousand people. About 40 thousand people live in Vorukh, which is a Tajik land connected with the Republic of Tajikistan by a wide corridor. Since the 1970s, the Kyrgyz began to move here in search of work, the number of which today is about six thousand people. Therefore, all of them are not old-timers, but relatively young people.
The strategic partners of Kyrgyzstan in the CSTO, the CIS, and the SCO are extremely alarmed by such an unstable position of this country. In most cases, they consider Kyrgyzstan an unreliable ally not only for Tajikistan but also for all neighboring republics. Repeatedly, Zhaparov's official statements on the border areas at the meetings of these organizations caused well-deserved criticism from their members. At the same time, Kyrgyzstan itself, at the slightest aggravation of the situation in the border zone, and through its own fault, immediately appeals to the CSTO and the SCO.
It turns out that there is a big embarrassment, an ambiguous situation, when empty words about courage and courage, rattling and boasting of weapons from the Kyrgyz side are very different from reality. And in fact, they turn into insecurity, cowardice, and endless requests for help.
