Kazakhstan president gives shoot-to-kill order against protesters, dismissing calls for negotiations

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Source: Washington Post

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Kazakhstan president gives shoot-to-kill order against protesters, dismissing calls for negotiations

By Mary Ilyushina and Amy Cheng
Today at 12:52 a.m. EST Updated today at 4:28 a.m. EST

MOSCOW -- Kazakhstan's president said Friday he had ordered his troops to "shoot to kill without warning" in effort to quash anti-government protests that have been raging since the weekend.

Chaotic and violent scenes persisted in the resource-rich Central Asian country of 19 million, as the first "peacekeeping" troops from a Russia-led military alliance arrived, on the back of its beleaguered leader's request for foreign intervention amid widespread protests over a decrepit political system and dramatic energy price hikes.

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev dismissed calls "from abroad" for negotiations as "stupidity" and vowed to crush the demonstrations.

"What negotiations could there be with criminals and murderers? We had to deal with armed and trained bandits and terrorists, both local and foreign. Therefore, they need to be destroyed, and this will be done in the near future," he said in a televised address.

[Here's what you need to know about Kazakhstan's unrest and Russian intervention]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/05/kazakhstan-fuel-protests-2022/

The death toll climbed to at least 26 demonstrators and 18 members of the security forces, according to the government, with some 3,000 people reportedly detained as of early Friday. At least one police officer was found decapitated, the Associated Press reported. (1)

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By Amy Cheng
Amy Cheng is a breaking-news reporter for The Washington Post in its Seoul hub. Before joining The Post in October 2021, she worked as a news producer for NPR in Beijing. Twitter https://twitter.com/Amy_23_Cheng

(1) https://apnews.com/article/business-kazakhstan-b263d10d8b982c521dd5188964036348

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/07/kazakhstan-russia-protests-csto/

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Kazakhstan president gives shoot-to-kill order against protesters, dismissing calls for negotiations

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Kazakhstan president gives shoot-to-kill order against protesters, dismissing calls for negotiations
Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said Friday he had "mostly" regained control, after his government announced that 18

Kazakhstan's president said he has ordered the police and army to shoot without warning as security forces look to end days of violent unrest

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Kazakhstan's Leader Gives Security Forces Order to Shoot Without Warning
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said his government had largely restored order as the country's security forces scoured the streets of

[Celerity]

1. Trump's wet dream

[mountain grammy]

8. Yes, and all republicans for that matter.

[Lonestarblue]

2. Russia has his back, just as Putin did with the authoritarian who lost the Belarus election.

Lukashenko has stayed in power in Belarus with Putin’s help in sending police to imprison and torture protesters and journalists to spread propaganda and lies. And now he’s preserving the power of the dictator in Kazakhstan. These are the people Republicans admire today.

Trump wants to emulate Putin, especially the imprisoning and torturing of journalists or anyone who tells the turth about him.

[greenjar_01]

3. Notable that "Shoot to Kill" is a completely redundant phrase in US discourse

And especially cop discourse.

"Shoot to Kill." Is there any other kind?

[Javaman]

4. the Kazakhstan leader has been trying to use the narrative that these protests are about gas prices

but in reality, it's about the leader installing another dictator and the people want to vote for the successor.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. New images of Russia's airborne units being deployed to Kazakhstan to help gov quell protests there.

This is bad news, for all of Kazakhstan.

Putin has always seen the nation as his, and he won't relinquish this.

New images of Russia's airborne units being deployed to Kazakhstan to help gov quell protests there.
Long column waiting to be loaded onto transports at an airbase in Ivanovskaya region in Russia.
Think this was filmed yesterday. (From Russian defense ministry)

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[pfitz59]

6. Not looking good

for regional stability.

[maxsolomon]

7. I'd suggest the protestors vanish into the mist

and come back another day.

They cannot depose the ruling cabal from Almaty, as Nur-Sultan is a 17 hour drive across the Steppe.

[llashram]

9. trump clone

[Anaico]

10. Putin

This is Putin's advice.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Kazakhstan unrest: Ex-intelligence chief arrested for treason

Kazakhstan's former intelligence chief has been arrested on suspicion of treason following nationwide anti-government protests.

The detention of Karim Massimov was announced by the National Security Committee, a body he headed until his removal this week.
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On top of his role as head of the intelligence agency, which grew out of the Soviet state security force the KGB, Mr Massimov was a close ally of President Nazarbayev, twice serving as his prime minister.

His arrest has sparked rumours of a power struggle in the Kazakh government, the BBC's Carrie Davies in Moscow reports.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-59922258