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Demobilization – 1997

The 1997 peace agreement does not include a specific demobilization plan. Instead, it refers to the disbandment of combatants, the details of which will be worked out by a military reform commission. Reintegration was to begin immediately and after the registration and integration process was completed, any remaining troops would be demobilized.¹

After the signing of the accord, UTO fighters were told to go registration sites in order to be considered for integration into the national military and to sign up for reintegration programs (i.e., job training or education). The process of registration of UTO fighters inside Tajikistan was underway by September 1997. Over 1,000 UTO fighters were registered by November.²

1. Stina Torjesen and S. Neil MacFarlane, “R before D: the case of post conflict reintegration in Tajikistan,” Conflict, Security and Development 7, no. 2 (2007): 311-332.
2. “Report of the Secretary-General on the Situation in Tajikistan,” United Nations (S/1997/859), November 5, 1997.