The forsaken people: case studies of the internally displaced, Roberta Cohen, Francis Mading Deng, Brookings Institution Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-8157-1514-6, ... Parliament held a special session in Khojand in November and elected Imomali Rakhmonov, a Kulobi, the new president. At that time, Parliament decided to merge the districts of Kurgan Teppe and Kulob, thereby forming the new Khatlon Oblast ...
