The soldiers who shot the demonstrators in the central square in Almaty are Russians enter Kazakhstan as “peacekeepers”, a protest activist told Siberia.Realii.
Think about a human rights defender Meirkhan Abdumanapov – one of the informal leaders to the protesters, the military were without identification, dressed entirely in black and are they spoke only Russian. He tells chronologically what happened on January 6.
“From nine in the morning until six and a half in the evening, everything was calm. During the day, messages began to arrive in the camp (of the protesters):” Disperse. In the city preceived reinforcements: Russian troops and parts of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) – Belarusian, Armenian and others, they will use force. “- said the activist.
According to Abdumanapov, only five people called him with such advice and everyone claimed that the information was “from reliable sources”: “Tonight or tomorrow they will shoot at meat.”
Protesters in Republic Square accepted the information “for information”, but most of them did not believe. Some activists, however, withdrew along with the people they took with them.
“When it got dark, at 18:30 or 18:40, they actually appeared in the square armored personnel carriers with machine guns. First on the east, then on the west. They started shooting at meat. People scattered, I saw that some fell. “- says the activist.
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He has personally seen seven people pierced by bullets: “One wounded in the arm, another in the head. We managed to bring out two wounded, the others did not. Two girls, very young, and a young man no longer showed signs of life. Another old man, heavy, alive – I tried to lift him, but I couldn’t … “
Abdumanapov stressed that the military who spoke to the protesters in the morning addressed them in Kazakh, and those who arrived in the evening – only in Russian.
“The soldiers were turning only in Russian, with a threatening tone: “Clear the square, we will shoot.” Not a word in Kazakh, from which we concluded that these were Russian troops. As we were warned during the day, “the human rights activist explained.
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Human Rights Watch has urged Kazakhstan to refrain from violence against protesters
After the clashes of the last days
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From January 2 Kazakhstan is engulfed in a wave of protests. People took to the streets of the cities to express themselves dissatisfaction with rising liquefied gas prices. Citizens are demanding the resignation of the president and the government, they are fighting corruption. Authorities introduced state of emergency. The authorities used force to disperse the protesters, leading to casualties.
As a result of the protests The goverment resigned, which was adopted by President Tokayev. He described Alihan Smailov as acting prime minister. At the same time Nursultan Nazarbayev has resigned as chairman of the Security Council of Kazakhstan – the post was taken over by Tokayev.
Authorities described the protesters as “terrorists”. On the night of January 5, the President of Kazakhstan Kasim-Jomart Tokayev, after a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, stated that it would address the countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization for help for “overcoming the terrorist threat” in the country.
Then in Kazakhstan Russian military forces arrived, led by General Andrei Serdyukov, who in 2014 organized the military operation to occupy Crimea.
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