In Tajikistan, debt-ridden farmers say they are pawns (International Herald Tribune)

14 October 2008, 7:47 pm

In Tajikistan, farmers are shackled to the land — "like slaves," one European official says — and forced to grow cotton through a complex system of debts and obligations.... read more

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