by Victor Gomez Tajikistan Religious Leader Slain The hail of machine-gun fire that cut down Mufti Fatkhulla Sharipov on a late January evening in a small Tajik village may as well have been a seismic jolt in the region’s political landscape. No sooner was his body discovered than politicians of all stripes across the region were loudly denouncing the horrific […]

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