Exclusion, Enmity, and the Normalization of the Exception: The September 2015 Incidents and the Development of Sovereign Dictatorship in Tajikistan

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This article explores the effects of the armed rebellion of Deputy Defense Minister Nazarzoda in September 2015 on the politics of Tajikistan. It explores how these events were used by the government as a justification to declare the Islamic Renaissance Party, the country's most significant opposition party, a terrorist organization. The article explores how the rebellion was framed by the government as a "coup" by a "traitor" who was supported by the IRPT and "outside forces." It challenges this narrative by pointing to the inconsistencies in the official narrative, examining Nazarzoda's career and placing the events in the context of the consolidation of the regime of Emomali Rahmon.

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