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In June 2000, several hundred horsemen rallied in the valley of Fergana for a gigantic "boskatchi," a cruel, age-old game in which the riders compete for a sheep's carcass. It is this valley, on the border between Uzbekhistan, Kirghizstan and Tadzhikistan, in which are concentrated all the religious, ethnic and social tensions which threaten to destabilize the ex-Soviet Muslim republics of Central Asia. Here, too, we find the stronghold of the Uzbekh Islamist Movement, an underground terrorist group headed by Dzjuma Namanguani, right-hand man to Oussama Ben Laden. Responsible for several terrorist attacks, murders and hostage-takings, he makes no bones about seeking to set up an Islamic state in the Fergana Valley and extend it across Central Asia. This is also the region where the most fervent form of Islamism in the ex-Soviet Union has survived and whose spectacular revival today frightens the governments of Central Asia and even Russia. Starting in the Fergana Valley, our inquiry into the role of Islamism and the "wahhabite" groups goes on to Kirghizistan and as far as the heights of Pamir, in Tazhikistan, a passage point for drugs, arms and the "combatants of Islam" who have come from Afghanistan.

France - 2001 - 55 mn - Betacam SP et Betacam di - Colour

Réalisation Karel Prokop Image Karel Prokop Son Egor Chiller, Dilchot Usurganovitch, Frédéric Thery Montage Thierry Bordes, Delphine Dufriche Musique Anarkul Nazarov

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