Tadzhik

Some of their supporters terrorized Tadzhik women who did not wear head scarves in public.

As Ilios Ibragimov, a Tadzhik truck driver in Dushanbe, put it, "Those people who caused the damage and looted, they were fools, bad people."

Elsewhere we are told that Tadzhik militants methodically phoned threats to every single family in the phone listings whose name sounded Armenian.

"You must not leave the hotel tonight," says the Tadzhik manager kindly but firmly.

"Go away," says a young Tadzhik, appearing out of nowhere.