[Nettime-bold] Central Asia

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C R I S I S W E B N E W S

Monday, 16 October 2000

Central Asia
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Beginning in early August, a series of violent incidents have brought
more attention to the prospects for large scale conflict in Central Asia
than at any time since the end of Tajikistan's civil war. Taliban forces
launched a new offensive in northern Afghanistan, bringing that
country's civil war and a potential refugee problem to the border of the
ill-prepared Tajikistan. This offensive coincided with a series of
low-level incursions into Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan by armed detachments
of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU). A number of other unlinked
incidents have added to a growing sense of general insecurity.





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