LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Ethnic Tension in Russia

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: December 3, 1998 | Copyright information

International Herald Tribune
12-03-1998
The report on the rise of ethnic tensions in southern Russia (''Russian Conspiracy-Mongers Round Up the Usual Ethnic Scapegoats,'' Nov. 16) suggests the need for a concerted international strategy.

Russia's economic crisis will exacerbate intolerance and inter-ethnic tensions, which could spill over into broader conflicts in the region. A case in point are the Meskhetian Turks, cited in the article, who were deported en masse in 1944 and subjected in 1989 to a pogrom in the Fergana Valley in what is now Uzbekistan.

Dispersed in Central Asia, Russia, ...

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