The case I would like to discuss today is our serious misjudgment of Central Asia One of our greatest fears is that ethnic. regional. and religious strife will engulf the Eurasian subcontinent. dragging in not only the nation of the former Soviet Union. but those on the periphery. including Turkey. Iran. Pakistan. and Afghanistan. Already a series of these interethnic conflicts in NagornoKarabakh. Abkhazia. and Ossetia has threatened to ignite the entire region of the Caucasus. Events in Tajikistan similarly threaten to ignite all of Central and Southern Asia. In Tajikistan. in the southeastern corner of the former Soviet Union. upwards of 100.000 people have been killed and several hundred thousand have been left homeless refugees In their own country. There are elements of both regional conflict and ethnic cleansing. People who are easily identified as coming from the Pamirs have been seized and summarily executed.
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