Batken conflict

Batken conflict
Date July 30 – September 27, 1999 (1 month and 4 weeks) Location Batken Region, Kyrgyzstan Result Strategic Kyrgyz victory The IMU is pushed back into Tajikistan [inconsistent]
Belligerents
Kyrgyzstan  Russia (material support)  Uzbekistan (military support)	Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
Commanders and leaders
Askar Akayev Myrzakan Subanov Esen Topoev Abdrakhman Mamataliev Abdygul Chotbaev Colonel Stanislav Kholodkov	Juma Namangani Tohir Yoʻldosh
Strength
several hundred soldiers	more than 1,000 militants
Casualties and losses
32 civilians and soldiers	1,150 militants

The Batken conflict (Kyrgyz: Баткен окуясы, romanized: Batken okuyasy, Russian: Баткенские события) was a period of armed clashes between militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and the Armed Forces of Kyrgyzstan, with support to the latter being provided by the Uzbek Ground Forces. It was caused by incursions of IMU militants into Uzbek and Kyrgyz territory from Tajikistan and was in part, centered on the unilateral demarcation of the Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan border by Uzbekistan.^[1]