Three years ago, on the night of February 7-8, 2020, a large-scale interethnic conflict occurred in Kazakhstan – the pogrom of Dungan villages Masanchi, Sortobe, Bular Batyr, and Aukhatti. An interview with Bolat Omarov, a lawyer who defended the accused…
Theme: minorities’ rights
On Jan. 31, after more than two months of court hearings, the first instance court finally issued a verdict in the Karakalpakstan case, which has 22 defendants. Readers are reminded that this case concerns protests that took place in Nukus on…
Five stories about Pamir and the Pamiris
The Pamiri peoples living in the Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region of Tajikistan have been defending their identity, culture, and the right to speak their languages for decades. Today, years of discrimination have turned into brutal repression. Five stories tell of…
The Chüy Valley spans the border between the Chüy region in northern Kyrgyzstan and Jambyl region in southern Kazakhstan. Since the late 1800s, it has been home to tens of thousands of Dungans, a predominantly Muslim people hailing from China…
Deutsch unten Representatives of the Pamiri people, forced to leave Tajikistan due to political persecution, are now deployed in many refugee camps in the territory of Germany. In the refugee camps of the city of Nuremberg alone, more…
In publishing this article by a civil rights activist about the problems of Dungan people in Central Asia, ADC Memorial is expressing its extreme concern about reports of numerous posts on Kazakh social media that incite ethnic enmity and hatred…