Word: tadzhiks
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...Samarkand last summer gangs of young Tadzhik thugs roamed the local marketplace, slashing the faces of women who wore makeup...
...population pressures, coupled with the floundering Soviet economy, have added greatly to impoverishment, joblessness and stinging resentment of the better-educated European Soviet nationalities -- and particularly of the well- to-do elite. Last month in Dushanbe these resentments exploded in several days of looting, burning and pogroms against non-Tadzhiks, especially against ethnic Russians. Yet next to the violence, the most striking aspect of the uprising was its trenchantly Islamic character. The insurgents demanded that Islam be declared the republic's official religion and that Arabic script be reinstated. Some of their supporters terrorized Tadzhik women who did not wear...
...world (after Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India), is in fact on the brink of the Islamic conflagration that commentator Belyaev feared. Those suspicions are unfair to the vast majority of Soviet Muslims, who may be nationalistic but do not embrace any brand of vengeful fundamentalism. As Ilios Ibragimov, a Tadzhik truck driver in Dushanbe, put it, "Those people who caused the damage and looted, they were fools, bad people." The question is whether Mikhail Gorbachev will also recognize the distinction and avoid further polarization of the restive Muslims along volatile religious lines...
...Tadzhik Telegraph Agency, the official news source of the republic, the Russian deputy editor says only 39 Armenians actually arrived in Dushanbe after the January pogrom in Baku, and every one of them stayed with either friends or relatives. The rumor of the 2,500 was never even remotely true, he claims. Elsewhere we are told that Tadzhik militants methodically phoned threats to every single family in the phone listings whose name sounded Armenian. "They called my son," says a middle-age Russian woman whose husband, now dead, was Armenian, "and they said, 'You are Armenians; you had better leave...
...tells me. "There just isn't enough work." He has a point. According to Soviet officials, Tadzhikistan's birthrate of 45 per 1,000 is by far the highest in the Soviet Union, even as the republic's economy is one of the poorest. Joblessness is openly admitted by Tadzhik officials; an estimated 70,000 to 200,000 are out of work...