Third Generation. What the Children of the Relatives of the President of Tajikistan Do and How They Live? (VIDEO)

How do the offspring of Rahmon’s relatives live?

Living in the poorest country in the world, they have never known scarcity, grew up in luxurious palaces, look at the residents of Tajikistan through the heavily tinted windows of their luxury cars, and receive high positions as gifts from older relatives. In this issue, we will tell you about the favored ones – this is how the young descendants of Emomali Rahmon’s countless relatives are referred to in Tajikistan.

New Generation 
Living in the poorest country in the world, they have never known scarcity, grew up in luxurious palaces, look at the residents of Tajikistan through the heavily tinted windows of their luxury cars, and receive high positions as gifts from older relatives. Today we will tell you about the favored ones – this is how the young descendants of Emomali Rahmon’s countless relatives are referred to in Tajikistan.

Third Generation

K.: During Emomali Rahmon’s rule, two generations of his relatives have already changed in high government positions, and the third is already knocking on the doors.

Z.K.: For example, in the 90s and 2000s, Emomali Rahmon brought his peers among relatives – brothers, brothers-in-law, and their husbands – to power.

By the end of the 2000s, his children had grown up – the presidential family expanded with sons-in-law and brothers-in-law, and out of generosity, Emomali Rahmon also placed them in important positions.

Starting from the late 2010s, the third generation of the “presidential family” has lined up in the long corridors of power, trying to break into high offices.

K.: The new generation is very different from the two previous ones. They have largely grown up detached from the realities of Tajikistan. Their fathers and grandfathers built a comfortable world for them, which is vastly different from the lives of ordinary residents of the republic. Elite kindergartens, English-style schools, and colleges have been built specifically for them in Dushanbe. Upon graduation, they enter Western universities, or at the very least, attend language courses in the UK or the USA. Their parents spare no expense: apartments in Dubai, Prague, London, and New York, entire garages of expensive luxury cars, and for entertainment, they even have elite nightclubs.

Lawlessness 

As you can understand, the logical outcome of the ingrained sense of superiority over the surrounding society is the ignoring, or even more so, the demonstrative trampling of the laws and rules of that society. The third generation of the presidential family behaves this way. While the dictator continuously shouts about the extreme importance of military service, his sons, nephews, and grandchildren are the first to ignore this requirement. For the male members of the presidential family, the concept of duty to the homeland seems to not exist at all.

In addition, the younger generation of the Rahmon family is trampling on the laws, demonstrating their impunity before justice to society. The residents of Tajikistan have repeatedly witnessed how the offspring of the Rahmon elite, driving their expensive cars, kill people without facing any punishment for it.

For example, this was the case with the son of a nephew of Emomali Rahmon – Davlatali Said – Faromuz. Due to his actions, two people died in a traffic accident. Law enforcement agencies announced that the cause of the accident was a factory defect in a brand new Toyota Camry. Faromuz Saidov was not held accountable.

Another case. A few years earlier, law enforcement also exonerated another favored individual, Rasul Amonullo. Three people died because of him. His father, a second cousin of Emomali Rahmon – Amonullo Khukumo, was then the director of the Tajik Railway.

Another notorious crime was committed by the brother-in-law of Emomali Rahmon’s fourth daughter, Dilovar Gulov. He attacked a police officer on duty with a weapon and beat him nearly to death. This relative of Rahmon received only one year in prison instead of the seven years mandated by law. It was officially stated that the court took into account Dilovar Gulov’s sincere remorse. However, immediately after the verdict, the criminal was granted amnesty and released.

Career Advances 

Another privilege for the relatives of the President of Tajikistan is the unlimited opportunities for rapid career advancement in public service or business. The extremely “gifted” and “capable” children of the Rahmon elite only need to express a desire to pursue a career in any agency, and a position will immediately be vacated for them, such as the head of a department or a deputy in some agency. From there, everything follows the usual path – the capable offspring of the president’s relative is swiftly promoted, and in about five years, he becomes the head of a district, a city prosecutor, or the manager of a state unitary enterprise. In recent years, the excessive dominance of Emomali Rahmon’s relatives in power and business has begun to irritate the population of the republic. To conceal the scale of the distribution of positions among the presidential clan, Rahmon himself devised an original method – he forced all officials, following his example, to remove the Russian suffixes -ov/ev/yov from their surnames.