Davlat Khudonazarov (

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) is a Tajik

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and

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activist.

Political career

Khudanazarov was a prominent filmmaker when he was elected People's Deputy from

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to the

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in 1988. He was elected as chairman of the Soviet Union of Cinematographers in 1989. He was the chief peace-negotiator between the army and the demonstrators in the February 1990 Dushanbe riots. In contrast to Kakhar Makhamov, the then president of Tajikistan who supported the August 1991 Coup in

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, Khudonazarov was one of the organizers of the counter-coup resistance. He ran against Rahmon Nabiev in the

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in November 1991 as the candidate of the opposition coalition. In the election Khudonazarov was supported by

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and urban elites. He received 35% of the popular vote. Khudonazarov worked as a peacemaker during the

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(1992–1996). In 1994–95 he was Peace Fellow at the

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, and Galina Starovoitova Fellow in Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at

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of the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2005.

Filmography

He has filmed many movies and documentaries as a director and cinematographer: * ''

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Political career

Filmography

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