Almost four thousand participants in the riots were detained in Kazakhstan. Among them, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there are more than a hundred militants and looters. The damage from the pogroms per day rose to two hundred million dollars.
Received injuries incompatible with life. Not an officer, not a law enforcement officer – an employee of the “Almaty” TV channel Muratkhan Bazarbayev died when he came under fire in the center of the city.
“During these days, journalists work together with police officers and doctors on the front line. Our colleagues also suffer losses at the hands of extremists. According to the Ministry of Information and Social Development, as a result of the terrorists’ criminal actions, an employee of the Almaty TV channel, Muratkhan Bazarbayev, was killed and wounded. colleague “, – reported on the air of Kazakhstani TV.
How the supposedly peaceful protesters react to the appearance of television cameras, reporters of the Astana TV channel also tell. The operator of which was severely beaten during the filming of the Alma-Ata pogroms.
“The operator got out of the car. At that moment one of the people from this crowd – I don’t know if you can call them people or not, they are just some kind of beasts,” one of them shouted: “These are journalists, beat him!” Crowd people attack, it turns out, they take away his camera. They beat them with their hands, kicked them, beat them on the head with their feet. One of the people jumps out with this crowd, in his hands he was either a sledgehammer or a tire iron. He raises his hand up and shouts: “Kill them!” – says Anar Nurtazina, AstanaTV correspondent.
The editorial offices of the TV channels “Mir”, “Eurasia”, “Kazakhstan” were destroyed and burned. Preventing journalists from doing their job – showing and telling about what is happening – is an important part of events in Kazakhstan. It seems that the real organizers of the pogroms really do not want to know about what is really happening in the country outside its borders.
“There are a number, a large number of human rights organizations that taught coordination, protests against the authorities, how to behave during interrogations, what freedom of religion is, what is the fight against state media. They defeated in Almaty. ”Exactly those who could give the wrong picture to the international broadcasting, including the TV company” Mir “, – says Yevgeny Satanovsky, political scientist, president of the Institute of the Middle East.
The fact that the country had to deal with both local and foreign bandits was declared by Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev in his third appeal since the beginning of the riots. Arman Dzhumageldiev was detained by the law enforcement agencies of Kazakhstan, along with five members of the organized criminal group. He is Wild Armand. Criminal authority. Sponsored nationalist organizations. In the midst of a pandemic, he distributed medicines to the most socially unprotected residents of the country for free. Enlisted their support. In order to use it at the right time, apparently.
“The first protests in one of the regions of Kazakhstan, indeed, had a social motive, they were associated with a sharp jump in gas prices, which almost doubled on January 1. But then external forces used this protest potential to incite unrest in other regions of Kazakhstan. already under political slogans, “says Nikita Mendkovich, head of the Eurasian Analytical Club.
Moreover, the people who supported the protest – those who actually considered the rise in gas prices to be unreasonable and critical – did not even imagine what the supposedly peaceful actions would result in: murders, violence and pogroms. Here, for example, is a video that has been circulated on social networks. Its author, Gulnaz Makhmetova, helped the protesters, brought water and medicine. Now – counts losses. The looters took everything they could out of her store. What they could not, they simply destroyed.
“I was completely robbed of several million. This is what is called gratitude,” says Makhmetova.
The terrorist gangs operating in Kazakhstan now were preparing abroad – another official statement of the President of the country. Moreover, this very preparation, quoting Tokayev himself, was overslept by the authorities. Although the experts spoke about the danger last summer. When the United States fled Afghanistan in a hurry. Leaving behind a plundered country and thousands of radicals brought up by them themselves, who poured across the border of neighboring states.
“These headless bodies were found in the square. This is the handwriting of international terrorists. And these terrorists, who were expelled from Syria, migrated to Iraq, and from Iraq to Afghanistan. And in Afghanistan, too, the Taliban (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) did not put up with them. , with the ISIS (terrorist organization is prohibited in Russia). And they squeezed them out. And where did these ISIS members? They did not exist in an airless space. They safely crossed the borders as refugees. Someone was returned back to Afghanistan, while others disappeared. – in Tajik society, in Kyrgyz society, in Kazakh society. They dissolved and hid. And conducted their subversive work, “said Viktor Litovkin, a military expert.
The fact that the terrorists were carefully preparing for the actions in Kazakhstan is evidenced by a number of facts. The extremists are well-armed and well-organized. Law enforcement officers and the military are attacked with “fives” – a well-known tactic. Opponents are exponentially decapitated. Strategic objects are attacking: the Almaty airport, military units – unknown people wanted to penetrate into the territory of one of them, in the Aktobe region. In Taldykorgan, the bandits tried to storm the detention center. The attack was repulsed. An anti-terrorist operation is taking place in the city.
“An anti-terrorist operation is starting in the city. Do not leave your home. We kindly ask you to be in a safe place,” residents of Taldykorgan are told.
Alma-Ata also received messages with a request to stay at home this morning.
“Today at seven in the morning I received the same message again that the city is going on:“ An anti-terrorist operation is underway in Almaty, stay in a safe place. ”Well, the safe place is only at home. In fact, we are all now cut off from any information, from the world. The TV does not show, the Internet, as everyone knows, does not work. The only reliable source now is our colleague, who lives in a house on the square. And she says, we contact her by phone, she hears what is happening on the square. “, – says Alma Orazbayeva, editor-in-chief of the News Department of the Khabar agency branch.
According to local residents, the cleansing of Alma-Ata from armed rioters continues – all day, shots are heard. In the event of a clash with the bandits, the military was ordered to shoot to kill.
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