{"id":498569,"date":"2022-02-04T12:35:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T12:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/04\/we-want-the-truth-families-of-ethnic-pamiris-killed-in-tajikistan-call-for-justice-as-tensions-rise"},"modified":"2022-02-04T12:35:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T12:35:23","slug":"we-want-the-truth-families-of-ethnic-pamiris-killed-in-tajikistan-call-for-justice-as-tensions-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/02\/04\/we-want-the-truth-families-of-ethnic-pamiris-killed-in-tajikistan-call-for-justice-as-tensions-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We want the truth\u2019: families of ethnic Pamiris killed in Tajikistan call for justice as tensions rise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Urgent protection for minority groups facing increased repression needed in crisis connected to escalating clashes across central Asian ex-Soviet region, say human rights groups<\/p>

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Parents of men killed by Tajikistan forces have called on the international community to step in and urgently protect ethnic groups being targeted by the Tajik regime.<\/p>

In a rare interview, families from the Pamiri ethnic minority have demanded that soldiers who killed their sons be brought to justice and urged the UN to prevent a new phase of conflict in Tajikistan, a landlocked country in central Asia.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Urgent protection for minority groups facing increased repression needed in crisis connected to escalating clashes across central Asian ex-Soviet region, say human rights groupsParents of men killed by Tajikistan forces have called on the international…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,471,1333,6,932,332,337,640,13,1156,24,2038,163,111,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498570,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498569\/revisions\/498570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}