Dora-nichov POV
August 15th, 1995
Darvoz, Tajikistan
I looked that city. That city... didn't like any city in the world. This city was only the parts of Gorno-Badakhshan... and even today. And then, I looked on the opposite side, I realize a man run away, so I called my friends:
"Look! A man is running away! Follow him!"
Than we follow him - that man who ran away. After a while, we saw a place...
It's too big...
Then... a gun pointed to my head...
The stranger: Who're you?
Me: We're not your enemy. We're the neutral.
The stranger: You speak Russian, right?
I realized Tajikistan-Russia-Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan are fighting against the United Tajik Opposition-Afghanistan-Taliban-Pakistan-Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan-Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (supported by Al-Qaeda), so I hope I don't tell him I'm Russian...
Me: Yes, Russian. But I'm Ukrainian, not Russian.
The stranger: I hate the Russians. But, if you are Ukrainian, so we forgive for you... and friends. Let's visit my UTO's base
I'm right. He's the rebel, and the rebels has already actived in Darvoz, Gorno-Badakhshan since December 1992. Next to me, Doraemon asked me: "What're you doing, Nichov?"
I didn't answer anyone.
We visited the rebel man's place, but Dora-the-Kid felt disappointed.
Dora-the-Kid: That place... look like city dump. Darvoz is the desert place, but if you want to find a base...
The rebel man: In Gorno-Badakhshan, nothing is impossible. The Government belives we will died in Gorno-Badakhshan, but they won't think we can stay here until now!
Dora-the-Kid: That's silly!
Later, we across to the place he called 'the base'. At first I also thought like Kid... But 10 minutes later...
The rebel man: The Tajik-Kyrgyz forces are attacking us!
That's the battle. Dora-rinho told me: "Let's go outside!", but I denied, because he had a bad memory. I told him hide in the tannel until the warfare stop. In Gorno-Badakhshan, if you're Tajik, Russian, Uzbek, Kyrgyz or anything related to them, we can easily become their target, and died. In this place, the rebels can move as fast as cut, like Nathaniel/Hawkeye, Uncas, Chingachgook and Magua in The Last of the Mohicans, the movie I has seen since the Bosnian War.
Dora-rinho: Hey! Come here! That man look like... Louis-Joseph de Montcalm.
El Matadora (are smiling): You right! The battle... now looking like The Last of the Mohicans. HAHAHAHA!
Dora-rinho: Who's George Monro?
El Matadora: He's here! The man what he is wearing a hooded towel full-face selections!
Dora-rinho: No, real... George Monro. That's my question.
El Matadora: You always forget anything! Monro has died for a long time. Not the time to joking, Rinho!
Doraemon: What the hell are you doing here? Go to the tannel, now!
I'm in the tannel now. Later, the Government used their helicopter, mortar, bazooka to attack the rebels. So many blasts and screams. But I didn't think that's OK. Than later, I saw the helicopter's pilot are shouting against them:
"You must surrender now, rebels, or you'll dead"
They only shout that words 6, or may be 7 times. Than I returned back, and spoke to the rebels man who had a gun pointed to my head.
Me: What do you think about the Government's order?
The rebel man: Surrender is suicided. We won't surrender, because this is my native land.
Anthony Loyd also told me and friends that words when he was in Chechnya. He told Aslan Maskhadov about surrender, but Maskhadov denied. He listened to Maskhadov words, and Maskhadov reaffirmed: "Surrender is suicided. We won't surrender, because this is my native land. The Russians is too stupid to know this. We'll retreat for a while, before we return back to Grozny, and fight against the Russians." - But now is too dark, so I decided to sleep, and wait some signals...
...few days later...
A Russian Lieutenant Colonel appeared, than a rebels captain appeared later. They shake hands together, and the Russian lieutenant colonel told him about the surrender order he was shouted, and the captain nodded. They're retrating out their base. But Dora-the-Kid ridiculed them: "You're lost, the rebels, HAHAHA!". But the rebels man came back and he said:
"The retreat is only temporarily. When we're stronger, we'll drive them back!"
...Than, we returned to the Tajik-Kyrgyz Army, than I saw a Swedish General. I and friends knew that man: Mathias Karlsson.
Mathias Karlsson (happy): The Doraemons! What the hell are you doing in Darvoz?
Me: We are fine, Karlsson.
Mathias Karlsson: How about the job as a ambassador?
Wang Dora: I hope I can see you soon, Mathias.
I've been thinking about the rebel man's words. What did he mean? I don't know.
Few days later, we went out. We would find a better place, with Mathias Karlsson. Than I heard a big new: the rebels has retaken the base... very easy. At that point, I understood his words, and understood why Gorno-Badakhshan want to become a independence nation.
Than, I saw a man... again. This time he wore the UN's coat. We stopped the car and ask him:
"What are you doing here?"
"I'm... lost!" - The man answered. He look very tired
"Lost. Hhmm... What's your name?" - Dora-the-Kid asked him again.
"My name's... Daniel Kinney,... British journalist... of the United... Nations..."
And then he's unconscious. Doraemon and Dora-med saw he's bleeding.
Doraemon and Me: He's injured!
Daniel Kinney... can he's OK? What about The Doraemons and Mathias Karlsson later? Read chapter 4.
August 21st, 1995
Darvoz Highway to Jirgatol, Tajikistan