The Government of Tajikistan', reported Helsinki Watch in July 1993, 'has failed to provide guarantees of personal safety and other basic conditions for returning refugees'. But the problem is far more serious than the government's lack of sympathy for sixty thousand refugees and displaced people of this obscure Central Asian republic. The present government is the victor of a bloody civil war that has ravaged Tajikistan since 1992. Commonly referred to as communist or neo-communist,…
