Police opened fire on protesters Turkmens

According to reports radio "Azatlyk" March 16, the police district Karkin Afghan province of Jowzjan opened fire on ethnic Turkmen - Karkin residents gathered in front of the local administration. Hundreds of people gathered here to protest the actions of border guards of Turkmenistan on an island formed by the middle of the border river as a result of the constant undermining of the coast from the Afghan side.According to reports, the protesters threw stones at the windows of the administration building, which has led the police to open fire on them to defeat.

As a result of shooting three people were killed on the spot, many were injured, including six heavy handed with the scene Afghan radio correspondent Shamerdanguly Myradov. All the seriously wounded to hospital Sheberghan city - the administrative center of the province of Jowzjan.

The fact that the shooting of protesters and confirmed Archin Karkin (head of the local self-government body) Ghulam Rasool Karyardar. According to him, the reason for the protest actions were the Turkmen border guards, who on the eve of March 15, expelled from the territory of the disputed island residents Karkin who came here to graze cattle and gather wood.

Island formed in the flood plain of the Amu Darya as a result of undermining and collapse of the Afghan bank of the river, for many months, remains a subject of dispute between the Turkmen border guards and residents of the Afghan Karkin.Ethnic Turkmen, who constitute the majority of the population the county, have repeatedly demanded that the authorities of the province and the government of Afghanistan to resolve the question of the ownership of the island.

Radio "Azatlyk" reports that this is the second since the beginning of this year to protest the construction of Turkmenistanfence lines on the disputed islands. February 27 thousand karkintsev got together and put forward their demands to the authorities of the two countries. Soon the region, a delegation from Kabul, whose members promised locals to resolve a controversial issue at the intergovernmental level. But things are there. This has led to a new karkintsev protest action.