Only ruins left of Dostuk villager's house and business

AKIPRESS.COM - Only ruins left of Abdisalam Parmanov's house and business in Dostuk village bordering with Tajikistan during the armed attack.
When the conflict began, Parmanov said he sent his wife and five children to the town of Batken, and he himself stayed to protect his property.
"Ten years ago I opened a carpentry shop, and three years ago I opened a paving stone factory. They burned down in the armed conflict. The house burned down, too. I borrowed $8,000 from a bank and now owe $10,000 with interest. I bought the paving stone machine on loan. According to preliminary calculations, the damage is 5 million soms. Recently I sold Porter car for 700 thousand soms and also had money from business. Everything was at home and burned," he added.
At least 36 Kyrgyz citizens were killed, including 33 civilians and 3 soldiers. 25 dead bodies of Kyrgyzstanis were found in the Golovnoy water distributor area in Ak-Sai rural district of Batken where a mortar shelling was reported on April 29. Criminal probe into the massacre was launched.
Kyrgyz Interior Ministry troops told about the details of the clash in the early days of the conflict near the Golovnoy area. The armed conflict that began on April 29 at this site on the border with the Vorukh enclave, then gunfire exchange escalated up to the border villages of Leilek district including Borborduk, Maksat, Kulundu, Arka-1 and Arka-2 in the night of April 30.
Tajikistani troops and civilians occupied the houses of Kyrgyz citizens on the morning of April 30, their military vehicles were seen in Kyrgyz villages while the local Kyrgyz citizens were evacuated and some fled the conflict zone on their cars. Throughout April 30, Tajik soldiers were inside the Kyrgyz villages. Some Kyrgyz local residents started coming home only from May 2, when ceasefire agreement was reached at the intergovernmental level and withdrawal of soldiers and military equipment started.