Karomatullo Qurbonov (, ; 29 November 1961 – 17 October 1992) was a popular pop singer and composer from
Tajikistan
Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border, south, Uzbekistan to ...
. On 17 October 1992 Qurbonov and a number of his band members were murdered by gunmen from the
Popular Front militia.
Qurbonov was one of a number of intellectual and cultural figures murdered during the
Tajik Civil War
The Tajikistani Civil War,, group=pron also known as the Tajik Civil War, began in May 1992 and ended in June 1997. Regional groups from the Garm, Tajikistan, Garm and Gorno-Badakhshan regions of Tajikistan rose up against the newly formed gover ...
. In 2008 a former member of the Popular Front, Mahmadahdi Nazarov, also known as Makhsum Mahdi, was convicted of Qurbonov's murder.
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Qurbonov's daughter, Noziya Karomatullo, is one of the most popular musicians in Tajikistan today.
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References
External links
His videos on Youtube
* that Noziya Karomatullo dedicated to her father Karomatullo Qurbonov
Tajikistani musicians
1961 births
1992 deaths
People from Khatlon Region
Tajikistani murder victims
20th-century Tajikistani musicians
20th-century Tajikistani singers
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