The month of May is a reminder of many dark memories for the Pamiri ethnic minority and residents of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) in Tajikistan. On 14th May 2022, there was a riot in Khorog, the capital of GBAO, home to the Pamiris, a tribe with unsimilar ethnicity, language, religion and culture from the rest of the Tajiks. About 1,000 people gathered to peacefully demand the resignation of the regional leader, Alisher Mirzonabatov, affectionately called The Butcher of the Pamir, and the fair investigation into the death of Gulbidin Ziyobekov, a Pamiri resident, who was killed by security forces in November 2021. In response, the authorities delivered an ultimatum to these locals that if the demonstrators did not disperse by 16.00 hrs on 16th May 2022, they would be dispersed and removed by force.
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At least four Palestinians were killed in Jenin
At least four Palestinians were killed on Thursday and 23 others injured after an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) operation in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. According to the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry, at least five of the injured are in critical condition. In a statement the Israeli security forces said they neutralized two operatives of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization who are suspected of significant terrorist activity.
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Five men on missing Titanic sub confirmed dead
Tributes from grief-stricken relatives and friends have been pouring in after a catastrophic implosion killed all five passengers on board a Titanic-bound submersible at the bottom of the ocean. The passengers killed were Pakastani businessman and his son, Shahzada and Suleman Dawood; British businessman Hamish Harding; French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet; and Stockton Rush, the CEO of the vessel’s operator, OceanGate Expeditions.
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Russia Claims Crimean Bridge Attacks Thwarted
Russia forces thwarted three sea drone attacks on the strategic Crimean Bridge linking Ukraine’s occupied Crimean Peninsula to the Russian mainland, as Ukraine’s military said it was continuing its push toward the southeastern city of Melitopol in an effort to cut off the land bridge to Crimea.
