In the past few years, 1455 Tajik citizens have been killed in the wars of Islamic countries. According to Tajik authorities, these people died in religious wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n
Ramzan Rahimzadeh, Minister of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan announced this statistic in a press conference and announced that \u201ca total of 2,566 citizens of Tajikistan have taken part in wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan\u201d. However, he did not specify exactly that in which of these countries more Tajik fighters were present and killed.<\/p>\n
According to Rahimzadeh, \u201clast year ten families, a total of 143\u201d people have returned back to the country and start a normal life.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince 2015, 1,444 members of different terrorist groups have returned back to Tajikistan and reintegrated into civil society and engaged in normal life,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Rahimzadeh put one of the reasons why Tajik citizens joined terrorist and extremist groups is that the young people are far from schools, and instead they go to informal education with mullahs (religious teachers) inside and outside the country, where they receive \u201cextremist lecturers and radical ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan, Sirojiddin Muhriddin also commented on the issue and said that the reintegration of Tajik fighters was a good move.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe return of the nationals of this country from the war-torn regions of the world and their integration into normal life is an important development,\u201d Muhriddin added.<\/p>\n
He further went on saying that so far, 381 citizens of Tajikistan have been returned back from Syria and Iraq. \u201cWe are trying to repatriate all our citizens who wish to return from the camps of war-hit countries,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Nearly 400 women and children returned to Tajikistan from camps in Syria <\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n In the last five years, Tajikistan has returned nearly 400 women and children\u2019s fighters from Syria and Iraq back to their country, and many others remain in Al-Hul shelter in Syria.<\/p>\n So far, no body has announced the exact statistics of the participation of Tajik citizens in the wars of Islamic countries. According to Tajik observers, the participation of Tajik citizens in the Iraq and Syria war began with the emergence of the ISIS terrorist group in 2014. Experts say that Tajik authorities do not have accurate information on the actual number of Tajiks participating in these wars.<\/p>\n It has been said that after the emergence of the extremist group \u201cIslamic State\u201d and the capture of parts of Iraq and Syria by its fighters, hundreds of young Tajiks joined the ranks of this terrorist group and took their wives and children with them. Many of these fighters have been killed or disappeared, and some of their wives and children are still living in camps in Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n The fate of Tajik fighters in Islamic countries is always in the center of attention of high-ranking officials in Dushanbe. Tajikistan President Emomali Rahman has repeatedly expressed concern about this issue. In one of his interviews, he stated that \u201cdozens of Tajik fighters have migrated to Afghanistan from Iraq and Syria after the suppression of the Islamic State group and settled in that country.\u201d<\/p>\n In one of meetings between other Tajik official, Rahman said: \u201cAccording to the information, more than a thousand residents of this country have joined the ranks of the Islamic State group and are participating in the wars in Syria and Iraq.\u201d<\/p>\n Rahman added that \u201ctotal of 146 families have migrated from Tajikistan to Syria and Iraq, and 21 students from the country’s higher education institutions have joined this group.\u201d According to the president, mosques, religious institutions inside and outside the country, as well as websites, are the main tools attracting and encouraging Tajik citizens to join the extremist groups.<\/p>\n Many Tajik citizens joined Daesh<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n Rahman considers instability in Afghanistan\u2019s neighborhood as the main threat to the security of Tajikistan and the countries of Central Asia. Rajabali Rahmanali, the commander of the border forces of Tajikistan, during his speech at the regional border security conference said that \u201cThe Taliban have deployed about 7,000 fighters and 29 training bases on the bordering areas with Tajikistan.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Golmerud Halimov, the former commander of Tajikistan\u2019s special police forces, fled the country in 2015 and later announced that he had joined the Islamic State group. In the following years, contradictory information about the activity of this commander and his assassination was published in the media. However, according to the latest information, Golmrud Khalimov is engaged in militant activities with Sufi militants of the \u201cKhorsan\u201d branch of the \u201cIslamic State\u201d in northern Afghanistan on the border with Tajikistan.<\/p>\n Some experts attribute the increase in the number of Tajiks who commit terrorist acts in different regions of the world, including Russia, Iran, and Turkey, to the increase in the tendency of Tajik youth to join extremist organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the past few years, 1455 Tajik citizens have been killed in the wars of Islamic countries. According to Tajik authorities, these people died in religious wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Ramzan Rahimzadeh, Minister of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan announced this statistic in a press conference and announced that \u201ca total of 2,566 citizens […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1172,3781,2928,503,6867,6866,651,1040],"class_list":["post-7952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middleeast","tag-daesh","tag-extremist","tag-groups","tag-headline","tag-reintegration","tag-return","tag-terrorist-group","tag-terrorists"],"yoast_head":"\n