Word: tadzhikistan
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...pogroms in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku and a brutal clampdown by the Soviet army, Kremlin control seemed to hang by a thread last week in yet another Soviet republic. This time rioting and looting, followed by direct intervention by the Soviet army, took place in Dushanbe, capital of Tadzhikistan, a little-known republic (pop. 5.1 million) tucked into a mountainous fold of Central Asia between Afghanistan and China...
...short drive from the airport to the Tadzhikistan Hotel that we realize something ugly is happening. Do we know about the big demonstration, the Tadzhik driver asks? "The Tadzhiks have demanded that the 2,500 Armenians leave," he says, "and gave them 48 hours to get out." What Armenians? "The Armenians recently came here as refugees from Baku," he continues, as good- naturedly as though referring to the light snow that is falling. "The government gave them apartments that we have been waiting for for eight years or more. So the Tadzhiks attacked the central-committee building. There...
...April a peaceful demonstration by Georgian separatists in Tbilisi turned into a horror when army and Interior Ministry troops attacked the unarmed protesters with shovels, clubs and poison gas, killing 20. There have been similar nationalist flare-ups in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tadzhikistan...
...second time in two months, a deadly earthquake hit the Soviet Union. As reconstruction efforts were getting under way in Armenia, where a massive tremor killed some 25,000 people, a second earthquake struck, this time 1,200 miles to the east in the Soviet republic of Tadzhikistan...
...able to escape the approaching mudslides. The small village of Sharora was not so lucky. The town was razed by a wall of mud up to 45 ft. high. With no hope of finding survivors, local officials decided to leave the village entombed. The estimated death toll of the Tadzhikistan quake...