Word: tadzhiks
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Half a block from the hotel, it is easy to see why. A news kiosk is burning and an armored personnel carrier blocks access to Lenin Prospect, Dushanbe's main artery. "You must not leave the hotel tonight," says the Tadzhik manager kindly but firmly. "There are many bad people around." Nonetheless, we head to Lenin Prospect to see what has happened...
...away," says a young Tadzhik, appearing out of nowhere. "You are not allowed to photograph...
...line of about 20 regular Soviet army troops in padded uniforms and helmets, carrying pale green metal shields and nightsticks, block off Lenin Prospect. Knots of Tadzhik men watch with surly stares, and the soldiers, mostly young Russian conscripts, fidget. Four APCs with idling motors guard the front of the pale brown stucco central-committee building. The day before, mobs smashed its windows and set it on fire. At one side of the debris- littered street, a soldier nonchalantly washes the bloodstains off his shield in a puddle left by melted snow...
...large young Tadzhik in a tan jacket links his arms with ours and shouts that he is taking us to see the innocent dead and wounded in the hospital. A car is commandeered, and we career down the boulevard to the hospital...
...died yesterday in this hospital," says a Tadzhik doctor, "and we took in 40 injured...