Is the problem with the Kyrgyz or with the leaders of Kyrgyzstan? A look at the international crimes of Sadyr Japarov and Kamchybek Tashiev
Author: Talib Aliyev, especially for "Sangar"
For 150 years, international humanitarian law has regulated and restricted the methods and means of warfare by parties to an armed conflict, the purpose of which is to strike a balance between legitimate military action and the humanitarian goal of reducing human suffering, especially the suffering of civilians.
The ways of warfare that have existed for many centuries are the result of a written agreement on the norms of behavior, and sometimes it was the mutual consent of the warring parties, and in some cases elementary humanity.
The world community, along with the development of technology and technology, has also begun to make serious efforts to introduce effective legal restrictions on the conduct of wars. At the international level, restrictions on methods and means of warfare and general principles are enshrined in the Hague Convention of 1907, as well as in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977 and 2005.
Central to all international humanitarian law relating to the conduct of hostilities is the principle of distinction. Military actions of an indiscriminate nature are prohibited. All parties to a conflict must distinguish between legitimate military targets, on the one hand, and civilians and civilian targets, on the other.
Deliberately targeting civilians is a war crime. International humanitarian law prohibits terrorizing civilians and destroying their means of survival by attacking crops, water sources, medical facilities, homes, and non-military vehicles. Hostage-taking and the use of "human shields" are prohibited. Attacks on medical institutions and medical personnel are not allowed.
It should be emphasized that the ignorant Kyrgyz military, with their useless leader (Sadyr Japarov) and false general (Kamchybek Tashiev), began to use heavy military equipment, including military helicopters and drones, to strike at the residential houses of citizens and the public facilities in Tajikistan. In particular, on September 16, in the village of Ovchi-Qalacha, Bobojon Gafurov district, a mosque near school No. 8 was destroyed with the help of a UAV. Also in this area, dozens of residential buildings of citizens, service points, a hospital, and public and personal transport were fired, as a result of which many civilians and children were killed. This is a confirmation that Kyrgyzstan, by its actions, violated all the principles of international humanitarian law and methods of warfare, which is an international crime.
The heads of the State Committee for National Security of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan agreed on a ceasefire on the border. But on September 20, the President of Kyrgyzstan accused Tajikistan of violating the agreements from the UN rostrum. Sadir Japarov's speech contradicts the protocol signed after the last border conflict.
Why is Japarov lying so blatantly? He committed military aggression against the Tajik people. Kyrgyzstan is the only state in Central Asia that cannot peacefully resolve the border issue. What Japarov probably doesn't know is that Tajikistan peacefully settled all of its border disputes with neighboring countries such as Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and China while he was in prison.
However, we still haven't forgotten.
Osh events of 1990, known as the “Osh Massacre”. The Kyrgyz demanded plots of land where the Uzbek population and citizens of Kyrgyzstan lived. There was a clash involving 30,000 people on both sides. The official version of Kyrgyzstan is 1200 killed. On the Uzbek side, according to former Uzbek President Islam Karimov, 10,000 people suffered.
Events in Osh and Jalalabad in June 2010. Another conflict between the Kyrgyz and Uzbeks of Kyrgyzstan. According to various sources, from 500 to 2,000 people were killed and thousands of people were injured, 400,000 Uzbeks took refuge in Uzbekistan. You can see on the Internet the atrocities that took place in these incidents, and we see no need to mention them here.
July 2013 - conflict on the border of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. Despite the fact that the process of delimitation and demarcation of the borders was completed, a massive conflict arose between the inhabitants. Citizens of Kyrgyzstan, who blocked the water in the Talas region, put forward the following demands: to return to Kyrgyzstan a plot of land 13 km long and 4.5 thousand hectares in area; Removal of border pillars from 2.6 thousand hectares of land transferred to Kazakhstan under an agreement in 2012. The number of victims is not reported.
These incidents and more than 230 cases of the use of weapons and conflicts on the border of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, initiated by the Kyrgyz military, are a clear example of the fact that Kyrgyzstan cannot or does not want to live in peace and harmony not only with its people and itself but also neither with the region nor with the world. Other ethnic groups of Kyrgyzstan or neighboring countries are always to blame for the problems of Kyrgyz.
The speech of the President of Kyrgyzstan at the UN General Assembly, using words far from reality, showed that even the leader of this country does not care about peace and stability in the region, not to mention his own people, suffering from economic problems and from the government of representatives of the underworld. Many understand that in such a difficult time, neither Kyrgyzstan nor Tajikistan needs this conflict, but foreign powers need it, and the Kyrgyz and Tajiks are dying not for their own interests, but for the interests of others.
The media note that the actions of the Kyrgyz army against the civilian population of Tajikistan are a war crime, and the Kyrgyz military must gradually answer for their actions. Only in this case can we expect that the border problems on the Kyrgyz side will find their solution.
Kyrgyzstan had military conflicts with all neighboring countries - Uzbekistan (Sukh enclave), Kazakhstan, and China. A logical question: is everyone to blame or Kyrgyzstan? But the reality is that none of the Central Asian republics respects Kyrgyzstan and does not want to have relations with it, because this country could never be a good neighbor with such leaders. What can we say about the neighbors, the Kyrgyz do not even respect their Tajik and Uzbek citizens. As they treated the Uzbeks in 1990 and 2010 in Osh, today they treat the native Tajiks in Kadamzhai and Bishkek. This means that the Kyrgyz or some of their groups do not even distinguish between humanity and barbarism.
Another interesting point is that in the Lakhsh region of Tajikistan, Kyrgyz drones attacked a Kyrgyz village, injured Kyrgyz schoolchildren and women, and destroyed their schools and homes. So far, not a single case has been recorded in Tajikistan when Kyrgyz or Uzbeks were persecuted by Tajiks on ethnic grounds. This means that the rule of law in the country, the culture, and the humanity of the nation are something else.
The Kyrgyz leaders thought all these years that the Tajiks would simply give them their lands. What naivete! Tajiks are not the people who would give even a piece of their land, because they have lived on these lands for thousands of years and value them very much. If anyone wants war, he will get it! The spirit of the Tajik people cannot be broken. Experience has shown that any military attack on Tajikistan was responded to by Kyrgyzstan in an appropriate way, and this should be enough for a normal leader.
Indeed, at such delicate moments, the leader of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon, calls on his people for restraint and patience. The Tajik authorities (most recently Sirajuddin Mukhriddin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan, from the UN rostrum) have repeatedly stated that they have friendly and good neighborly relations with everyone and constantly warn against artificial conflicts and marginal interests of regional and international criminal organizations.
But who is Sadir Jabarov? War Seeker? Commander of the aggressor army? But why is this so? Even from the podium of the UN, he proved his craving for war, bloodshed, and murder. Already after his speech, Kyrgyz drones began to fly in the airspace of Tajikistan and thus violated it. Drones were recorded flying over Isfara, Devashtich, Babajan Ghafurov, Jabbar Rasulov, and Rasht regions, Tajik border checkpoints Sarhadchi and Shirinchashma in the Lakhsh region, Rostrovut and Muryak in the Devashtich region, military units of the Ministry of Defense of Tajikistan.
The irony here is that the leader of Kyrgyzstan has violated international humanitarian law, the conventions established by the UN on the regulation of wars, and other international documents committed war crimes, but at the same time speaks and lies to the world from the rostrum of the UN.
However, there is no need to bring this issue up for discussion at the international level. Sit down with your neighbor, solve your problem, live peacefully, and don't make yourself the laughingstock of the whole world. But who are we talking to?
It is very weird and funny...
