Emomali Rahmon arrived in GBAO

On the morning of August 15, the President of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon, began a working trip to the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region.

According to official data, Rahmon’s working trip to GBAO started in the Darvaz district, where he familiarized himself with the progress of the reconstruction of the road section “Kalaikhumb — Vanch — Rushan district” as part of the reconstruction project of the highway “Dushanbe — Kulma – China border.”

It is expected that during his working trip to GBAO, the president will also visit the Rushan and Shugnan districts, as well as the city of Khorog.

At the same time, several residents of Khorog told Pamir Inside that employees of the State Committee for National Security are forcing women and men to greet the president, artificially creating a crowd, and threatening punishment in case of absence from the meeting.

This is Rahmon’s first visit to GBAO since the bloody events in the Rushan district and Khorog in May 2022.

During the suppression of the protests, dozens of GBAO natives were killed, and hundreds were imprisoned. Several thousand Badakhshanis were forced to emigrate to countries in Europe and the USA.

After the bloody events in Badakhshan, when dozens of citizens were killed, Emomali Rahmon stated that he personally ordered the conduct of this “operation.”

According to Radio Ozodi, Emomali Rahmon’s trip to GBAO was planned for last autumn, but it was canceled due to the “unstable situation in Afghanistan” and Rahmon’s “health condition.”