Posted on 02/07/2020 10:25:21 PM PST by NorseViking
In Kazakhstan in the settlement Masanchi unknown people opened fire on residents.
The police said that the situation is under control, however, according to the head of the Association of Dungans of Kazakhstan Husain Daurov, the situation in Masanchi is not under control, and the law enforecement can not take anything.
However, the Chairman of the Association of Dungans of Kazakhstan noted that people awaiting the arrival of federal law enforcement officers, and in the meantime the situation is heating up.
"Somewhere more than 10 households now burning, no fire engines in sight. There is a massive fight. Not just a brawl, people arrived from neighboring towns and firing weapons into residents" said Daurov.
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Was this problem started by “youths?”
Sounds like a Kazakhstan West Side Story.
Dungans is a Chinese Hui Muslim group of about 10 million people living mostly in China and about 100k between Kyrghystan and Uzbekistan. Some are illegal aliens living in that particular part of Kazakhstan.
In social media they write the unrest was a result of a traffic stop. The cops pulled a Honda Odissey with a foreign license plate, probably Chinese or Uzbek, the driver refused to cooperate and they chased him to a backyard of an apartment complex in Masanchi. The driver probably phoned his friends and someone opened fire on police from the building.
As information went public it probably fueled existing anti-Uzbek and anti-Chinese sentiments and people arrived to their town to punish them.
See post #4.
Thanks...good update.
Thanks for the color. Border town issues.
There might be something with a coronavirus scare as well.
“There might be something with a coronavirus scare as well.”
Maybe trying to stop any Chinese from entering?
I don’t think it is a primary reason. More like everything combined.
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