Posted on 01/06/2022 3:40:55 PM PST by fruser1
Dozens of demonstrators were gunned down today as the streets of Almaty were turned into a 'war zone', with protesters being accused of beheading three police officers.
Burnt-out vehicles littered the city's streets, several government buildings were in ruins and bullet casings were strewn over the territory of the presidential residence, which was stormed and looted by protesters yesterday.
Officials have said more than 1,000 people had been wounded so far in the clashes, with nearly 400 hospitalised and 62 in intensive care. The number of protesters killed has not been revealed, but Police said earlier they had 'eliminated' dozens of rioters.
Long seen as one the most stable of the ex-Soviet republics of Central Asia, energy-rich Kazakhstan is facing its biggest crisis in decades after days of protests over rising fuel prices escalated into widespread unrest.
Kazakhstan's interior ministry on Thursday said 18 security officers have been killed and 748 wounded in the clashes with protesters. The ministry also said 2,298 protestors had been detained.
'The most difficult situation remains in Almaty, where armed men seized and partially destroyed a number of the premises of state bodies, financial organisations, television companies and trade facilities,' the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the Russian news agencies.
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Pic of Mayor's building in Almaty below.
I guess Russia doesn’t have enough uranium, oil, and internet p0rn. They want to corner those markets by gobbling up the Kazakhs again.
Putin has given them a License to Kill. Do they get double oh ratings to go with it?
They need to send Borat in to calm everyone down.
Just trying to get back those satellite stan nations they once held.
History seems to be repeating itself.
This is really going to hurt their potassium exports.
Can we rent some para peacekeepers to keep us safe from Antifa and BLM? 🤪
https://youtu.be/ww1dME7yuyk
It was a “mostly peaceful” protest.
I would have first guessed that this was possibly some foreign intelligence agency’s doing (ahem CIA, cough...)
But given the rapid escalation of violence, the targeted attacks on specific buildings, the videos of people being handed weapons from random cars on the street, etc...
This seems more like a high level Kazakh Government factional dispute / civil war.
How’s the Jab fascism going there?
“if attacked by ‘armed gangs’”
Well yes if “demonstrators” are shooting at them you’d expect they would shoot back.
In this article there is a Twitter embed showing weapons being handed to the mostly peaceful protesters from an unmarked vehicle:
Yep.
Nuke them.
With Biden in the WH, now is the time for Putin to re-assemble the old Soviet Empire to its former glory, step by step. No better opportunity for every dictator in the world to expand his influence. The 2020 stolen election will have worldwide unforeseen consequences, not all in our favor. Expect apocalyptic social unrest in the world from now on.
A muzzy country behaving as such.
It could be worse, its no where near as violent as Jan 6th.. s/
Now THAT’S an insurgency!
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