The military was urgently redeploying while civilians were evacuating in a disorderly yet supervised manner.
The troops guarding Dushanbe had initially deployed heavy weapons on the outskirts, with only some infantry to maintain order within the city. Although there were tanks and armored vehicles in the city too, they were relatively few.
Now, all the tanks and armored vehicles were heading into the city, encountering the fleeing civilians on the streets.
An officer fired into the air, driving away a group that blocked the path of the tanks, and guided the tanks to stop at a predetermined position on a street corner.
In reality, the few dozen men, women, and children in the group were just moving slowly. The tanks could have passed with a brief wait, but everyone was in a hurry now, and the officer maintaining order chose to fire into the air rather than wait even a minute longer.
"This officer is not bad. He might be anxious, but what he did was correct,"
