A curfew and state of emergency were declared yesterday in the South of the Central Asian Republic in order to ______.

Tajikistan declared a curfew and state of emergency yesterday in the south of the Central Asian republic a day after two powerful warlords killed each other. The moves were designed to prevent violence as troops buried their warlord leaders in Kurgan-Tyube, an: area near the southern border with Afghanistan. The warlords, Sangak Safarov and Faizuli Saidov, were former leaders of the same front. They killed each other early on Tuesday in a shoot out which may have left up to 15 others dead. Their forces, comprising about 600 men backed by armored cars and tanks, have so far refrained from retaliation.
     Tass news agency said the Tajik-Government declared yesterday a day of national mourning for the funerals. Safarov and Saidov, its former deputies, fell out over a government decree to disband the front’s armed formations and order which Safarov obeyed but Saidov did not.