Concentration Camps Today
(Soviet) Tajikistan
Capital: Dushanbe
(1 concentration camp, 2 prisons)
(1 concentration camp, 2 prisons)
Death camps:
5
• Asht (underground uranium mine)
• Bekabad (uranium mine [underground] & enrichment facility)
• Leninabad (uranium mine [underground] & enrichment facility)
• Sovetabad (underground uranium mine)
• Zeravshan (uranium mine [underground] & enrichment facility)
(death by radiation poisoning in all 5)
Forced-labor concentration camps:
7
• 1 for women and children (Dushanbe)
Torture-facility prisons:
2
References:
Shifrin, A., The First Guidebook to Prisons and Concentration Camps of the Soviet Union, Bantam Books, New York, 1982.