The Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) is a region in the remote Pamir mountains of East Tajikistan, the home of distinct ethnic groups. Together, they form the Pamiri minority communities whom the central authorities do not recognize as a minority. The Tajikistani state officially denies the existence of a Pamiri minority. However, despite regarding Pamiris as ethnic Tajiks, the central Tajikistani authorities have consistently subjected them to discrimination and promoted a culture of prejudice against them, and in recent years have stepped up their efforts to suppress the use of Pamiri languages, Pamiri cultural practices, and the expression of Pamiri identity.
- Index Number
- EUR 60/8413/2024
- Pages
- 12
- Published in
- United Kingdom
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Table of Contents
- TAJIKISTAN REPRISALS AGAINST PAMIRI MINORITY 1
- SUPPRESSION OF LOCAL IDENTITY CLAMPDOWN ON ALL DISSENT 1
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 5
- 1. INTRODUCTION 8
- 2. STATE-SPONSORED NARRATIVES AND NEGATIVE DEPICTION OF PAMIRIS 14
- 3. TARGETING OF PAMIRIS INFORMAL LEADERS AND INFLUENCERS 17
- 4. ARBITRARY TARGETING OF ORDINARY PAMIRI ISMAILIS FOR HARASSMENT VIOLENCE PROSECUTION AND IMPRISONMENT 24
- 5. SOCIOECONOMIC MARGINALIZATION AND CURBING OF ACCESS TO RESOURCES 49
- 6. SUPPRESSION OF EXPRESSION OF ETHNORELIGIOUS IDENTITY 54
- 7. DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE 59
- 8. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 62
- AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL IS A GLOBAL MOVEMENT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS. WHEN INJUSTICE HAPPENS TO ONE PERSON IT MATTERS TO US ALL. 66
- TAJIKISTAN REPRISALS AGAINST PAMIRI MINORITY SUPPRESSION OF LOCAL IDENTITY CLAMPDOWN ON ALL DISSENT 67
