Tajikistani Civil War

  

Tajikistani Civil War
Part of Cold War
Tajik para-commandos in 1998
Date 9 February 1996 – 18 October 2001 (5 years, 8 months, 1 week and 2 days) Location Tajikistan Result Popular Front victory Islamist groups defeated and confined to a low-level insurgency Formation of a new democratic and secular government All-Tajikistan "Fatherland" wins the 2003 Tajik parliamentary election
Belligerents
Popular Front of Tajikistan Democratic Party PDPT remnants Other minor parties Supported by: Uzbekistan Kazakhstan Iran	Islamic Renaissance Party Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
Commanders and leaders
Hikmatullo Asadullayev Bakhtyar Qoimdodov Hafizullah Zohid Sobirjon Zia

The Tajikistani Civil War (Tajik: Ҷанги шаҳрвандии Тоҷикистон, romanized: Jangi şahrvandi'i Tojikiston/Çangi şahrvandiji Toçikiston) or the Tajik Civil War was a conflict beginning from 9 February 1996 after Islamist members of the government refused to step down when their constitutional mandate expired, leading to violence between Islamists on one side and liberal democratic reformers and the former Communist elite on the other, the latter being led by President Hikmatullo Asadullayev. The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan rose up against a newly-elected government dominated by the 'Popular Front' of liberal democrats and former Communist government officials after the 1995 Tajik parliamentary election, with support from a similar organization in Uzbekistan.

After the Popular Front government secured control of the capital Dushanbe from rebel groups, most of the fighting took place in eastern and southern Tajikistan. Some cross-border attacks occurred in the northwest along the Uzbekistan-Tajikistan border by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU). With supplies and weapons from Iran and military support from the Uzbek army, the government was able to take back most of the rebel areas by early 2000. Fighting against Islamist rebels would continue, especially in the eastern Gorno-Badakhshan region, until a ceasefire signed in October 2001. The war resulted in a new constitution being adopted and created the modern framework of the Tajik state.

Armistice and aftermath

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