DUSHANBE, November 3, 2014, Asia-Plus – Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service reports that a human rights group in Tajikistan has urged the government to compensate families of army conscripts killed in hazing incidents.
In a statement issued on November 3, the Amparo human rights center said at least two conscripts have been killed and one left paralyzed in bullying incidents this year.
In June, a Tajik Army sergeant was sentenced to nine years in jail for beating a conscript to death during a hazing incident in the northern Khujand Province.
Violent hazing has been a persistent problem in former Soviet republics.
Amparo is based in the provincial capital of Khujand, Tajikistan''s second-largest city.
The group also said that raids across Tajikistan to round up young men avoiding conscription have decreased in frequency but continue.
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