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Afghanistan’s Ethnic Kyrgyz Want To Escape The Taliban, But It’s No Easy Task

25th January, 2023 · admin

By Baktygul Chynybaeva Farangis Najibullah January 24, 2023 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Dozens of ethnic Kyrgyz from Afghanistan’s remote Wakhan Corridor are calling on the government in Bishkek to repatriate them to their ancestral homeland so their children can get the education that the Taliban has denied them. In video statements sent to RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service,

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Refugees and Migrants, Taliban | Tags: Escape from the Taliban, Kyrgyz, Kyrgyzstan, Turks in Afghanistan |
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Tajik Interior Minister Says His Country Unable To Host Many Afghan Refugees

2nd September, 2021 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 2, 2021 Tajik Interior Minister Ramazon Rahimzoda says his country is unable to host many refugees from neighboring Afghanistan, as thousands look to flee after Taliban militants took control of the country. Rahimzoda cited a lack of infrastructure to host Afghan refugees as the reason and called on international organizations,

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Posted in Central Asia, Refugees and Migrants, Taliban | Tags: Asylum, Escape from the Taliban, Kyrgyz, Tajikistan-Afghanistan Relations, Uzbekistan-Afghanistan Relations |
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Kyrgyzstan Appeals For Help For Ethnic Kyrgyz Who Fled Afghanistan

16th July, 2021 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service July 16,2021 BISHKEK — The Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry has appealed to authorities in neighboring Tajikistan to facilitate the passage to their common border of hundreds of ethnic Kyrgyz who fled Afghanistan amid a major Taliban surge that is raising security concerns in neighboring former Soviet republics. The ministry also said on July 15 that

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Posted in Central Asia, Ethnic Issues, Refugees and Migrants | Tags: Kyrgyz, Kyrgyzstan |
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44 Leave Pamir Area of Badakhshan, Obtain Kyrgyz Citizenship

4th May, 2021 · admin

Tolo News: Officials said 44 residents of Badakhshan’s Pamir area left the mountainous region in Afghanistan’s northeast and obtained Kyrgyzstan citizenship. They are seeking a better life by leaving their native living style, officials said. Pamir residents said they have been ignored by governments over the last several decades. Click here to read more (external

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Posted in Economic News, Ethnic Issues, Refugees and Migrants | Tags: Afghan Pamir, Ashraf Ghani Government, Badakhshan, Kyrgyz, Kyrgyzstan |
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Afghanistan’s Kyrgyz trapped on the ‘roof of the world

8th February, 2018 · admin · 2 Comments

AFP: For centuries, the nomadic Kyrgyz people travelled freely across Central and South Asia, fording rivers and cutting across snow-capped mountains with their herds of livestock. Today they are stuck on the “roof of the world” — caught in Afghanistan’s remote and mountainous Wakhan Corridor with little hope of a way out. Political upheaval and violence

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Posted in Central Asia, Everyday Life | Tags: Kyrgyz, Nomads, Wakhan |

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