The Power Balance in the Tajikistan Civil War

Описание: Islam Reborn (June 1996)
Islam Reborn follows the return of Islamic refugees from Afghanistan to Tajikistan who were pushed out during the civil war. A report on the defeat and recovery of Islam in Tajikistan.

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The ruling Kulabis are reliant on Russian funding, and the resurrection of an Islamic mosque suggests the Islamists are yet again establishing a stronghold. A bus rumbles through the shimmering heat to a Russian checkpoint. Behind it, 1300 miles of barbed wire mark Tajikistan's border with Afghanistan. The bus contains anxious Gharmis returning home from Afghan refugee camps. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, they were driven out by a vicious civil war between their own Islamic forces and the Soviet-backed Kulabis. They now return, fearing reprisals from a new Kulabi government, but hoping after four years to resume normal life.

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