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Several govt officials taken hostage

Ttjik protesters storm presidential palace
MOSCOW. Sept I: Protesters stormed the presidential palace of Tajikistan's Rakhmon Nabiyev on Monday and took several senior gov eminent officials hostage. Rus sian news agencies said, re ports Reuter.
Itar-Tass said hundreds of demonstrators forced their way into tlie palace, look con trol of the ground floor and took a number of prisoners hi eluding members of NabiyeVs staff and government employees.
It said the demonstrators were demanding Nabtyev's resignation and the release of an army general suspected of In volvcment in the assassination of a top judicial official In the former Soviet republic last week.
A second agency. Nega. said two deputy Prime Ministers, a military adviser to Nabiyev and an official In charge of cabinet business had been taken away by the angry crowd to an unknown location.
Demonstrators at the scene said they would be held until Nabiyev. whose whereabouts were not known, agreed to talks
Nabiyev. a former commu nisi party boss, won his way back to power tn elections in Tajikistan last November
In may he survived a popular rebellion by inviting the Liberal and Islamic opposition to help form a broad government coalition Since then, his freedom of political manoeuvre has been strictly limited
Armed opposition groups
have recently stepped up re sistance tn the southern Kurgan-Tyube region of the central Aslan state, and the asaas stnation of the Judicial official in the capital Dushanbe raised fears of a new wave of mass violence
Tass said the demonstrators wanted the release of Army General Rakhlm Nurullobekov. suspected of involvement in the assassination of chief prosecutor Nurullo Khuvaidu) layev on August 24.
They said Nurullobekov was being held by the KGB security police in connection with the killing
Tass said the protesters were also angry at Nabiyev’s failure to put an end to bloodshed and unrest in the south of the country, where border
raids and weapons smuggling from neighbouring Afghanistan are rampant.
Tajikistan, a mainly Muslim state, is among the poorest and most backward of the 15 former Soviet republics which gained Independence with the breakup of the union last year
Earlier on Monday. Tass re ported that Nabiyev had ac cepted the resignation of Prime Minister Akbar Mlr-zoyev. apparently In connection with the mounting crisis
Officials say Nabtyev is considering Inviting a Russian led commonwealth peacekeeping force Into troubled regions of Tajikistan, opposition leaders argue this could lead to an all-out civil war and fuel Islamic fundamentalism.