Faizali Saidov

His father was a Lakai-Uzbek while his mother was a Kulabi.{{Cite web|title=Barnett Richard Rubin, Comments on Tajikistan events|url=http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/53/034.html|access-date=2021-05-15|website=www.hartford-hwp.com}} He was born in 1964 and came from a sovkhoz near Kurgan-Tyube. In September 1992, officers of the 191st Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Russian 201st Motor Rifle Division seized tanks to be transferred to the Saidov in order to prevent the seizure of the city of Kurgan-Tyube by Islamist detachments. During the war, he led the 11th Independent Special Forces Brigade of the Ministry of Defense, based out of the city of Kalininabad.{{Cite web|title=ГИРЕҲ ДАР ГУЛӮ|url=https://www.kamolov.tj/index.php/ru/publitsistika/56-fajzali-saidov|access-date=2021-05-15|website=www.kamolov.tj|language=ru-ru|archive-date=2021-05-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518034144/https://www.kamolov.tj/index.php/ru/publitsistika/56-fajzali-saidov|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|title=ГИРЕҲ ДАР ГУЛӮ|url=https://www.kamolov.tj/index.php/ru/proizvedeniya/20-v-granitse-vsya-ego-zhizn|access-date=2021-05-15|website=www.kamolov.tj|language=ru-ru|archive-date=2022-09-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220924232226/https://www.kamolov.tj/index.php/ru/proizvedeniya/20-v-granitse-vsya-ego-zhizn|url-status=dead}} Saidov's 65-year-old father was mutilated and burnt to death by opposition forces, in violation of a deal to exchange him for POWs freed by Saidov, as a result of which he began a crackdown against the opposition.{{Cite web|title=|url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/57a08b7bed915d3cfd000d4e/wp46.2.pdf}} After the front took control of Dushanbe, Saidov, laid siege to the headquarters to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (VKD) with a demand that he be given “some job.”{{Cite web|title=Tajikistan: Top Former Warlord, Rahmon Antagonist Sprung from Jail {{!}} Eurasianet|url=https://eurasianet.org/tajikistan-top-former-warlord-rahmon-antagonist-sprung-jail|access-date=2021-05-15|website=eurasianet.org|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Палач против Гитлера. Истории таджикских уголовников, дехкан и учителей, ставших командирами гражданской войны|url=https://mediazona.ca/article/2020/11/10/leaders|access-date=2021-05-15|website=Медиазона Центральная Азия|language=ru}}

He was assassinated on 29 March 1993, alongside Sangak Safarov after an armed clash at his house.{{Cite news|title=Tajikistan: Warlords -- A Country's Scourge|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/1083852.html|access-date=2021-05-15|newspaper=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|date=9 April 2008 |language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Dagiev|first=Dagikhudo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TQXfAQAAQBAJ&q=Faizali+Saidov&pg=PT205|title=Regime Transition in Central Asia: Stateness, Nationalism and Political Change in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan|date=2013-10-30|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-60076-2|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=25 ЛЕТ СПУСТЯ: ТАЙНА ГИБЕЛИ САНГАКА САФАРОВА И ФАЙЗАЛИ САИДОВА|url=http://akhbor-rus.com/-p534-122.htm|access-date=2021-05-15|website=akhbor-rus.com|language=en|archive-date=2023-02-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205013806/https://akhbor-rus.com/-p534-122.htm|url-status=dead}} There are multiple versions of their deaths, including one where they kill each other as well as another where government troops were responsible for his death.{{Cite web|title=Смерть под грифом "секретно": Кто убил Сангака Сафарова и Файзали Саидова? {{!}} Новости Таджикистана ASIA-Plus|url=https://asiaplustj.info/ru/news/tajikistan/society/20200331/smert-pod-grifom-sekretno-kto-ubil-sangaka-safarova-i-faizali-saidova|access-date=2021-05-15|website=asiaplustj.info}} The clash reportedly occurred during an argument over the fate of refugees living in Taliban Afghanistan.{{Cite magazine|date=1993-04-12|title=Shoot-Out|language=en-US|magazine=Time|url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,978213,00.html|access-date=2021-05-15|issn=0040-781X}} The government declared a state of emergency after their deaths.{{Cite web|title=TAJIKISTAN DECLARES EMERGENCY AFTER DEATHS OF OFFICIALS|url=https://greensboro.com/tajikistan-declares-emergency-after-deaths-of-officials/article_20cf629a-fe9e-5b6d-8c2c-e1b44a8eef59.html|access-date=2021-05-15|website=Greensboro News and Record|date=31 March 1993 |language=en}} Saidov was succeeded as brigade commander by Izat Kuganov.

On 24 June 1993, by order of the Council of Ministers led by Abdumalik Abdullajanov, the name Faizali Saidov was attached to the 11th Brigade. It therefore became the 11th Independent Special Forces Brigade "Faizali Saidov".{{Cite web|title=Постановление Совет Министров Республики Таджикистан от 24 июня 1993г. № 302 "О присвоении имени комбрига Файзали Саидова 11-ой отдельной бригаде специального назначения Министерства обороны Республики Таджикистан"|url=http://www.adlia.tj/show_doc.fwx?Rgn=9913|access-date=2021-05-15|website=www.adlia.tj}} A memorial billboard commemorating Saidov is located in Khatlon Region.{{Cite web|title=Faizali Saidov memorial|url=http://wikimapia.org/34402080/Faizali-Saidov-memorial|access-date=2021-05-15|website=wikimapia.org|language=en}} There is a state farm named after Faizali Saidov in the Kushoniyon District.{{Cite web|title=Планета|url=https://telegrafua.com/world/14211|access-date=2021-05-15|website=telegrafua.com}}

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