Even before the latest round of heavy fighting in the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan outsiders were warning that the world could face another huge humanitarian crisis in the remote Central Asian County.
Before the fighting in the capital of Dushanbe there were already more than 100000 displaced Tajiks. What’s more several hundred thousand ethnic Russians in the mostly Muslim republic of 5.2 million people would like to leave but cant. There are also tens of thousands of Afghan refugees in Dushanbe
Article extracted from this publication >> November 6, 1992
