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Police Reform: General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord in Tajikistan

Implementations

Police Reform – 1997

In 1997, there were no reports of any efforts to incorporate UTO troops into law enforcement agencies. As outlined in the accord text, such a program should have fallen under the jurisdiction of the CNR.

Police Reform – 1998

No reports were found of any programs having to do with the integration of UTO fighters into police forces or law enforcement agencies. The International Crises Group also reported that attempts at police reform undertaken in 1998 and 1999 were unsuccessful.¹

«Central Asia: The Politics of Police Reform,» International Crisis Group, Asia Report no. 42, December 10, 2002.

Police Reform – 1999

No reports were found of any programs having to do with the integration of UTO fighters into police forces and law enforcement agencies. The International Crises Group also reported that attempts at police reform undertaken in 1998 and 1999 were unsuccessful.²

Ibid.

Police Reform – 2000

As of the end of 2000, when the CNR was wrapping up its planning and oversight activities, there were no reports of UTO fighters being integrated into the police forces. Around 4,498 UTO fighters were integrated into the military or armed forces, but there was no mention of any integration efforts aimed at police forces, whether national or local.³

While it is possible that a compromise was worked out on this issue during the integration of UTO troops into the armed forces that involved some type of substitution of UTO forces, the CNR makes no reference to any such deal. Moreover, the discussion of the integration of UTO troops into the military is in a different section of the accord than the section above that deals with quotas in law enforcement. Integration of UTO troops into the military is covered under «Protocol on Military Issues», while the UTO quotas into law enforcement agencies is covered under «Protocol on Political Questions.»

Rashid Abdullo, «Implementation of the 1997 General Agreement: Success, Dilemmas, and Challenges,» in Politics of Compromise: the Tajikistan Peace Process, eds. K. Abdullaev and C. Barnes (London: Conciliation Resources, 2001), Accord 10: 48—53.