bane, ruin, curse, imprecation

This is the first in the series WAR. We are the victims. Yet victim implies powerlessness, guilt, and the shadow of blame. The dead blame no one.

• Wall There's a stadium behind the supermarket Poitaht. Everything in Dushanbe is named Poitaht, lest you forget that you're in the capital (poitaht means capital in Tajik). But when you're here, you can't forget that this is the seat of power - the BMW signals at you, reminds us that the......
• Shadow of Rudaki [/caption] A statue of Rudaki stands in the middle of Rudaki park, near the presidential palace. A statue of Somoni stands not far away. Almost every city in Tajikistan has a massive statue of one of these two figures. Furthermore, almost every city, town and village has a statue of......