Clashes on Uzbek-Kyrgyz Border

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - In Brief 02 Jun 2020 by Alex Teddy
On May 31 civilians on the frontier of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan fought each other with stones. Several houses were set on fire. Over 30 people have been injured but so far no one has died. Some of the wounded have required surgery. The fighting centered around the Sokh Enclave. Sokh is Uzbek territory which is entirely surrounded by Kyrgyzstan and has no corridor to link it to the rest of Uzbekistan.Sokh is inside the Kyrgyz Region of Batken. The fighting started when people disputed who owned a spring. The Uzbek Border Guards claims to have the situation in hand. The Uzbek PM Abdula Aripov met the Kyrgyz Deputy PM at the border to discuss the situation. The border is like this because when the USSR drew the map between the Soviet republics in the 1930s the aim was to make the breakup of the USSR as difficult as possible.

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