News

State news agency accuses Tajikistan's Islamic Renaissance Party leader of coup plans

Dushanbe, September 11, Interfax - The Khovar state-run news agency has published an article claiming that the leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, Muhiddin Kabiri, was preparing a coup and former Deputy Defense Minister Abduhalim Nazarzoda was planned to be the perpetrator.

The article entitled "There is no trust in Islamic extremists" alleged that the government's decision to make peace with the opposition after the five-year Civil War which ended in June 1997 and to sign the inter-Tajik peace agreement was a mistake.

"The emergency situation in which local Islamists inspired by operations of the Taliban and ISIL boosted their activity and revealed their hidden intentions of a power grab and a coup was predictable and anticipated," the article said.

The standoff between the police and Nazarzoda's followers began in Tajikistan on September 4 with an attack on a police station. According to official reports, 45 persons - 18 law enforcement officers and 27 insurgents - have died by now. Seventy-two insurgents have been detained, yet Nazarzoda is still hiding in Ramit Gorge, 150 kilometers east of Dushanbe.

The article said the confrontation "was preceded by numerous long-term 'business trips' of Islamic Renaissance Party leader Kabiri to foreign countries, and his long-term residence in Turkey where he set up his ideological headquarters."

"The perpetrator, the military strategist and the direct supervisor of the operation was former Deputy Defense Minister Maj. Gen. Abduhalim Nazarzoda (field commander Khoji Halim), a member of the Islamic Renaissance Party and a follower of the United Tajik Opposition (UTO) integrated into the Armed Forces under the 1997 Peace Agreement," the article claimed.

"Khoji Halim who headed the Tajik Defense Ministry's logistics and supply department seized large quantities of weapons and ammunition from three military units to which he had direct access and took them away from Dushanbe in at least two KamAZ trucks. This arsenal was meant for arming Islamic Renaissance Party terrorist groups in every region of the republic," the article said.

"When it signed the peace agreement in the 1990s, the Tajik government trusted the United Tajik Opposition and thought they would be reliable followers but it was mistaken. That mistake backfired 20 years later and caused casualties," the article said.

"There are no former Islamists. They remain extremists ready to betray and to murder even after they get positions, titles, material and social benefits," it said.

The Russian Supreme Court has branded ISIL as a terrorist organization and prohibited its activity in the Russian territory.

Print this page

Home

News

.	Customize latest news

• 'God Kuzya' accomplices detained in Moscow 17 January 2020, 17:59
• Sword seized from Yakut shaman returned 17 January 2020, 17:58
• Task of Jewish community is address help to people - Rabbi Lazar 16 January 2020, 20:43
• New U.S. ambassador to Russia prefers ice hockey to ice-water dips 16 January 2020, 18:18
• Russian Church praises Putin's attention to traditional values of Russians 15 January 2020, 17:49
• Georgian patriarch becomes godfather to another 500 children 15 January 2020, 15:06
• The Russian Orthodox Church official believes Stalin could have become a good bishop 13 January 2020, 19:36
• Russian Church predicts further schisms in western Protestant Churches 13 January 2020, 16:32
• Russian Church believes churches are good for making Orthodox acquaintances 13 January 2020, 14:10
• Russian Orthodox Church sees dangers in reduction of marriage age in Russia 13 January 2020, 14:05
• The Russian Church expects Putin will refer to health care and education in his yearly address 13 January 2020, 13:55
• Filaret recalls signature under UOC-KP liquidation 13 January 2020, 10:06
• Jehovah's Witnesses' activities shut down in Murmansk 30 December 2019, 21:02
• Putin sends Christmas, New Year's greetings to European leaders 30 December 2019, 19:14
• ROC calls for protection of rights of Orthodox Christians in Montenegro 30 December 2019, 16:04
• Georgian patriarch, cardinal from Vatican discuss challenges faced by Christian world 30 December 2019, 11:11
• Over 100 'program' churches built in Moscow over 9 years 27 December 2019, 19:56
• Patriarch Kirill ceases liturgical commemoration of patriarch of Alexandria for recognizing new church of Ukraine 26 December 2019, 16:45
• Leader of Jehovah's Witnesses in Vologda detained in extremist organization probe 25 December 2019, 19:46
• Russian Jews agree with Putin's opinion on Polish ambassador who supported Hitler 25 December 2019, 17:51
• Cassation court posthumously acquits Orthodox dissident Shchipkova 40 years after sentencing 25 December 2019, 16:16
• Patriarch Kirill on Christmas Day calls on Pope, other Christian leaders to combine efforts to help people affected by armed conflicts 25 December 2019, 15:25
• Some 64% of Ukrainians don't support shifting Christmas celebrations to December 25 - opinion poll 25 December 2019, 11:53
• Russian Orthodox Church could open parishes in Africa if Patriarchate of Alexandria sides with Ukrainian schism - Metropolitan Hilarion (updated) 24 December 2019, 21:48
• U.S. Department of State report on freedom of religion in Russia not worthy of attention - Russian Orthodox Church 23 December 2019, 13:52
• Patriarch Kirill's ex-press secretary appointed to new position 20 December 2019, 16:19
• Russian Orthodox Church Synod to make decision on Patriarch of Alexandria after his recognition of OCU next week 20 December 2019, 14:51
• Six Jehovah's Witnesses convicted in Penza 13 December 2019, 16:23
• Rosobrnadzor bans acceptance of students to seminary of Evangelical-Lutheran church 13 December 2019, 11:38
• Patriarch Kirill calls to continue fight for Orthodox unity in 2020 12 December 2019, 10:04

Other news