Emomali Rahmon

And then we see, uh, you know, locals starting to get really angry, particularly in Yaftal, both with the administration, the Taliban, and all this going on, because it means that all sides are cracking down at the moment.

And I think there's a whole bunch of other incidents which have been just building up and happening over the last couple of weeks, and it's really putting Tajikistan in a tough position where, you know, if I'm a policy advisor in Dushanbe and I go to Rahmon and say, "Hey, look, we should help these resistance guys.

A lot of them are ethnic Tajiks.

They're our brothers.

They're just over the border.

You know, maybe it's the time where we can push back on the Taliban government, who we haven't liked for a long time," others are gonna point out that this is only going to make it worse, and if the country fractures into a civil war, that's a pretty disastrous problem right there on the border.

So others might be suggesting to Rahmon to support the Taliban to help crush these rebellions.

But at the same time, these are hurting ethnic Tajiks.