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Article: Under the banner of Islam. (Tajik Islamist opposition)
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- March 1, 1993
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The attempt to form a Muslim-inspired government in the Central Asian republic of Tajikstan has failed for the time being. Islamist guerrillas have retreated to the mountains in the east. Ian MacWilliam reports from Tajikstan on the bitter regional and ideological struggle which has overtaken the country.
LIKE THEIR PREDECESSORS, the anti-Bolshevik Basmachi guerrillas of the 1920s, Tajikstan's Islamists have retreated into the remote Pamir mountains for what may well prove to be their final stand. When ex-Communist forces marched into the capital Dushanbe last December and drove out the remnants of Tajikstan's short-lived Islamist coalition government, they seem to ...