Kazakhstan says ‘strategic facilities’ are being protected after unrest According to Reuters
© Reuters. A Kazakh law enforcement officer stands guard near a burning truck while inspecting vehicles on the street following mass protests over fuel price hikes in Almaty, Kazakhstan January 8, 2022. REUTERS / Pavel Mikheyev
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Several “strategic facilities” in Kazakhstan are under the protection of a Russian-led military coalition invited to restore order, the president’s office said on Sunday. Sunday, amid the most violent outbreak of violence in the country’s 30 years of independence. .
Dozens of people have been killed, thousands detained and public buildings burned across the Central Asian country this past week, prompting President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to issue a shoot-to-kill order to end the unrest. okay that he blamed what he considered bandits. and terrorists.
At Tokayev’s invitation, the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) dispatched troops to restore order, an intervention that comes at a time of heightened tensions between Russia and the United States. before new negotiations on the Ukraine crisis.
“Several strategic facilities have been transferred under the protection of the unified peacekeeping team of CSTO member states,” the president’s office said in a statement detailing a security briefing. security chaired by Tokayev.
It does not define the base.
Authorities say 5,800 people have been arrested in connection with the unrest, including “a significant number” of foreign nationals. It said the situation had stabilized in all regions.
Protests in Kazakhstan began as a reaction to rising fuel prices before becoming a broad movement against the government of Tokayev and the man he replaced as president of the Soviet republic resource-rich old, Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Nazarbayev, 81, was the longest-reigning ruler of any former Soviet state until he transferred the presidency to Tokayev in 2019. His family is said to have retained influence in Nur- Sultan, the purpose-built capital that bears his name.
Tokayev removed Nazarbayev on Wednesday as head of the country’s Security Council, a role he has continued to wield considerable influence.
Former Kazakh intelligence chief and two-time prime minister Karim Massimov were arrested on suspicion of treason.
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