“They violated migration rules and committed crimes”: Tajik district head explains expulsion of Afghan refugees

“They violated migration rules and committed crimes”: Tajik district head explains expulsion of Afghan refugees

Olimbek Yuldoshozoda, head of the Jabbor-Rasoulov district in Sughd province, has commented for the first time in nearly three months on the removal of Afghan refugees from the area and explained what happened to the belongings many of them were unable to take with them. In early May, local residents who had lived alongside the Afghan refugees for several years reported that security officers had “gathered all the Afghan citizens and taken them …