World IN BRIEF : TAJIKISTAN : Refugees Reportedly Face Death in Cold
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Tajikistan plunged deeper into chaos as gun battles raged near the capital of Dushanbe and the Red Cross reported 80,000 refugees facing death in the south of the former Soviet republic. Dieter Pfaff, mission head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Tajikistan, said at least 80,000 refugees who fled fighting in Shartuz, near the Afghan border, were now camped in cotton fields near the frontier in freezing cold.
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