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2 unusual facts about Jahangir Mamatov


Jahangir Mamatov

On August 17, 1991, as his protest against the attempted coup in Moscow aimed at opposing Gorbachev's reform program and the new union treaty that he decentralised power to the republics, Mamatov went to demonstrate with some of his friends in front of the Parliament building and publicly burned his Party member certificate.

Mamatov organized an investigative group in the parliament regarding violence in Bekobod, Boka, Parkent and concluded that those incidents were masterminded by the Uzbek government.



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