DUSHANBE, July 5, 2011, Asia-Plus -- An investigation into last year’s attack on military convoy in Kamarob Gorge of Rasht district has been completed and persons under investigation are currently familiarizing themselves with the case materials, Colonel Homidjon Ibodov, a chief aide to the main military prosecutor, said in an interview with Asia-Plus.

“After the persons under investigation complete to familiarize themselves with case materials, the case will move to the Supreme Court,” Ibodov said.

We will recall that an ambush killed at east 28 government troops in Rasht Valley on September 19, 2010.  Tajik authorities said the Defense Ministry''s convoy had come under grenade attack in Kamarob Gorge in Rasht Valley, a one-time stronghold of the Islamic opposition that had fought the government in a civil war in the 1990s.

The authorities blamed former opposition commanders Alovuddin Davlatov (known as Ali Bedaki) and Abdullo Rahimov (known as Mullo Abdullo) for the ambush and additional government forces were sent to the area to hunt down the attackers.

On January 4, 2011, the Interior Ministry forces raided a building in Rasht district, where a group of militants were sheltering.  The Interior Ministry official Tohir Normatov said Alovuddin Davlatov was among eight people killed in the operation.

The country’s most wanted man, militant leader Abdullo Rahimov, has been killed in Nourobod district.  Rahimov, widely known as Mullo Abdullo, was reportedly killed on April 14, 2011 along with 15 of his followers in a special operation by government forces in the village of Samsoliq, about 135 kilometers east of Dushanbe.