Almaty: Kazakhstan authorities said on Sunday they had stabilized the situation throughout the country after the outbreak of the most deadly violence in 30 years of independence, and troops from Russian-led military alliances maintained “strategic facilities”.
Security and intelligence officials briefed to President Kassim-Jomart Tokayev that they continued the “cleaning” actions in what he called a large counter-terrorism operation throughout the former Soviet Republic which borders Russia and China.
Dozens of people have been killed, thousands of public buildings were detained and burned over the past week, pushing Tokayev to issue a shooting command to end the riots he had blamed on bandits and terrorists.
At the invitation of Tokayev, the Organization of the Russian Collective Security Agreement (CSTO) sent troops to restore order, the intervention came during high tensions in Russia-u.
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“A number of strategic facilities have been transferred under the protection of United’s peace maintenance contingent from CSTO member countries,” said the President’s Office in a statement detailing the security briefing chaired by Tokayev.
It does not identify facilities.
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“The situation has been stabilized in all the territory of the country,” he said, adding law enforcement agencies has seized control of returning administrative buildings and vital services being restored.
What started a week ago with a demonstration against the increase in fuel prices exploded into a broader protest against the Tokayev government and the man who was replaced as the former president of the resource-rich Soviet Republic, Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Violence has given a blow to the image of Kazakhstan as a controlled and stable country, which has been used to attract hundreds of billions of dollars in Western investment in the oil industry and its mineral.
It has opened a crack in the powerful elite, with Tokayev struggling to consolidate his authority after firing the main official and removing Nazarbayev from a strong role as the Head of the Security Council.
Former Intelligence Chief and Two Prime Minister Karim Massimov, seen approaching Nazarbayev, has been arrested for suspected of treason but the authorities have not revealed the details of the allegations against him.
State television takes unusual steps at the top of the news bulletin underlines that Tokayev is “the highest state official, Chair of the Security Council.
In this capacity he made a decision independently.” Administration said 5,800 people had been arrested in connection with riots.
State television said two soldiers among those who were killed, and 163 had been injured.
When security operations continued, it was said that around 400 people were arrested in the city of Shymkent near the border with Uzbekistan.
In Almaty, the largest city where many concentrated violence, normal life seems to be back on Sunday even though with fewer cars than usual.
Security forces have made checkpoints around the city perimeter.
In the middle, crushed windows, severe cash machines and burning buildings bored with destruction.
The main republican square where the Mayor’s office is located to be sealed to the public.
One road to it was surrounded by the police; The other is blocked by a burning bus.
A Reuters correspondent saw two military vehicles with machine guns installed towards the square.
Most of the tens of civilians and police are burned as long as the riots have been removed on Sundays.
The internet is very limited, with access only available for the presidential website and a handful of other local news sites.
A magnum spokesman, the biggest supermarket chain, said about 68 stores in Almaty, 15 had been completely looted.
The staff at the shopping center told Reuters that video cameras showed looters attacking ATMs, changing clothes and stolen shoes in shops and walking out wearing two or three coats.
Yerkin Zhumabekov, a manager at the mall, said: “They arrived in a car without plate numbers at night, they destroyed everything.
They took everything they could, shoes, clothing, cosmetics.”
Kazakhstan said the situation was stable, the president was strongly responsible after the riots
