ocr: The main ethnic contlict in T'ajildstan is between the Tajiks and Uzbeks - peoples of. Persian and Iurkac origin, respectively. As in neighboring Uzbekistan, however, Russians are discriminated against and their ranks have thinned from 400,000 - in 1989 - to around 200,000 today. By 1990, - the 35,000-strong German minority had left. The struggle between Dushanbe- based communists and Islamic militants in the central and eastern regions has displaced over 60,000 refugees into Afghanistan, whose OWnI Tajik population numbers over one million. Attempts to repatriate the refugees inl 1993 failed.
