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THE WEEK WORLD, Page 17Et Cetera
THE NAYS HAVE IT
For the third time this year, the elected President of a
former Soviet republic has been forced out of office by a
popular uprising. Rebel militiamen in Dushanbe, capital of
Tajikistan, seized President Rakhmon Nabiyev as he drove to the
airport and forced him at gunpoint to sign a formal resignation.
Nabiyev, the longtime communist boss of Tajikistan, won almost
60% of the vote in a presidential election last November.
Fighting broke out between Nabiyev's supporters and his rivals,
a coalition of democratic and Islamic groups, and in recent
weeks the clashes turned into civil war.