Davlat Khudonazarov

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Davlat Khudonazarov, (1944-) is a Tajik filmmaker, politician and human rights activist.

Khudanazarov was a prominent filmmaker when he was elected People's Deputy from Tajikistan to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1988. He was elected the chairman of the USSR Union of Cinematographers in 1989. He was the chief peace-negotiator between the army and the demonstrators in the February 1989 Dushanbe riots.

In contrast to Khakhar Makhamov, the then president of Tajikistan who supported the August 1991 Coup in Moscow, Khudonazarov was one of the organizers of the counter-coup resistance. He run against Rahmon Nabiev in the presidential elections in November 1991 as the candidate of opposition coalition. He received 35% of the popular vote. Khudonazarov worked as a peacemaker during the Tajik Civil War (1992 – 1996). In 1994-95 he was Peace Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, and Galina Starovoitova Fellow in Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center and Washington in 2005. He works as a human rights activist.