WORLD_ U.S. weighs in as Kazakh anti-government protests expand

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

U.S. weighs in as Kazakh anti-government protests expand

Russian troops deploy in regional 'peacekeeping' mission

Riot police gather to block demonstrators during a protest in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. Demonstrators denouncing the doubling of prices for liquefied gas have clashed with police in Kazakhstan’s largest city and held protests in about a dozen ... more >


By David R. Sands - The Washington Times - Updated: 5:23 p.m. on Thursday, January 6, 2022


Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke by telephone with his Kazakh counterpart Thursday, urging a quick end to a week of increasingly violent anti-government protests that have rocked the Central Asian nation.

The call came amid reports that dozens of protesters and at least 12 security officers had been killed overnight in street clashes, Kazakh officials told The Associated Press, and more than 2,000 have been detained. Video of the protests showed what appeared to be security forces backed by armored trucks firing down a street in the country’s main city of Almaty.

Russian paratroopers, dispatched as part of an emergency regional peacekeeping mission requested by the Kazakhstan regime, were said to be already working to help tamp down the crisis, which is considered the most serious challenge to the authoritarian regime’s rule in three decades since the country broke away from the disintegrating Soviet Union.

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