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Kazakhstan, former security chief arrested for high treason

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The former head of the KNB, the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan, and former premier Karim Massimov, was arrested on charges of high treason. The Knb himself makes it in an official statement. The Kazakh online newspaper Orda.kz yesterday he reported the news of the arrest of Samat Abish, number two of the Kazakh security services (KNB) and nephew of Nazarbayev. The website had subsequently denied the news, released that the source was incorrect. Orda.kz he also reported that the former president left the country with his daughters and it is not known where he is now.

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The Kazakh authorities are therefore suggesting that behind the violent riots triggered in recent days by the rise in fuel prices there was a direction linked to the highest levels of the secret services. Yesterday a former adviser to Nazarbayev, Yermukhamet Yertysbayev, appeared on television and said that, 40 minutes before the assault on Almaty airport, security forces had been told to remove the cordon and move away. According to Yertysbayev, the conspirators also favored the occupation of the National Security command in Almaty. The former adviser to Nazarbayev also said that the rioters knew where to fire and had been “prepared from the ideological point of view”. Yertysbayev also accused the K regionib of hiding information on military training camps set up in the country’s mountainous mountains. All charges for which Masimov will now be called to answer.

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US State Department approves the departure of employees from the consulate
Meanwhile, today, the US State Department ordered all “non-essential” personnel of the consulate in Kazakhstan to leave the country. “Voluntary departure from Kazakhstan of non-emergency employees of the Almaty Consulate General and their family members,” reads the US State Department website.

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President of Kazakhstan orders to shoot on sight
In a speech on television, the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev asked the security forces to shoot without warning in case of further unrest, after the protests of the previous days. “The authorities of Kazakhstan have a duty to maintain order but giving the police and the army carte blanche to shoot without warning is an illegal act that risks causing disaster – said Marie Struthers, director of Amnesty International for Eastern Europe and Central Asia -. If this order is not canceled, the already catastrophic situation of human rights and the ongoing crisis are destined to worsen ”.

Protests started on January 2nd
Protests against the rise in the price of LPG began on January 2 in the southeastern region of Mangystau and then spread to other cities in Kazakhstan, including the main and most populous Almaty. The demonstrations gradually became violent. Crowds of demonstrators stormed and set fire to the Almaty municipality office and stole firearms from the security forces. These first used stun grenades and tear gas then began firing live bullets, as happened on January 6 in Piazza della Repubblica, also in Almaty.

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The authorities have restricted access to the Internet and other media and have asked the media not to violate the regulatory deadlines. Contacts with people living in Kazakhstan are precarious and in many cases intermittent, Amnesty recalls. The Interior Ministry has announced that over 3,800 people have been arrested and that the deaths, including police officers and demonstrators, are at least 26. It is feared that the number of seconds may be much higher given that both activists and the police forces spoke of “dozens” of dead and President Tokayev of “hundreds”. On January 4, the police arrested and interrogated at least two journalists from the local broadcaster Azzattyk, partner of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

On January 5, the government asked Russia and the other adhering former Soviet space states to apply the Collective Security Treaty, receiving the promise of sending over 3,000 men to restore order and face unspecified “threats external “. For years, the authorities have been repressing the human rights of the people of Kazakhstan, banning peaceful protests and preventing the activities of opposition political parties. Peaceful protest movement leaders, human rights defenders, bloggers and others are arrested and sentenced after unfair trials. There has never been a full investigation into the killing of at least 14 protesters during the 2011 crackdown on protests in Zhanaozen.

The UN calls for moderation
The UN has called on parties in Kazakhstan to restrain, warning that violence and killings are unacceptable. “We continue to monitor the situation in Kazakhstan and call on all involved to show restraint, refrain from violence and use peaceful means to resolve the situation,” UN secretary spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a briefing. The spokesperson stressed that it is important for the violence to end and for the demonstrators to conduct their actions in a peaceful way. “The killing of police officers as well as that of demonstrators is unacceptable,” Dujarric added, confirming the ongoing contacts between the UN and the Kazakh authorities.

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