Controlling vehicles at checkpoints throughout the city… In residential areas, open grocery stores, etc.
State-run broadcaster repeats “Please refrain from going out because it is an emergency”… Internet access is available only to state media
(Almaty = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Sang-wook = It is difficult to find protesters on the morning of the 9th (local time) in Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, where bloody anti-government protests have intensified since the beginning of the year.
After the peacekeeping force of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CST0), a security consultative body of former Soviet countries led by Russia, was dispatched on the 6th, shootings between the protesters and the suppression force occurred intermittently until the previous day. aspect.
The CSTO peacekeeping force also included Russian paratroopers.
Peacekeepers and security forces in Kazakhstan have deployed police and police at government offices and key facilities in the city center, including City Hall and Republic Square, once occupied by anti-government protesters.
The suppression force is also setting up checkpoints throughout the city center to check suspicious vehicles.
Kazakhstan’s Interior Ministry said that until the previous day, 5,135 people had been arrested for taking part in the unrest.
ALMATY (Archyde.com = Yonhap News) Law enforcement officers stand next to a burnt truck and check a vehicle in the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan, where radical protests have taken place in protest against soaring prices, including liquefied natural gas (LPG). . 2022.1.9 [email protected]
Anti-government protesters are believed to have fled Almaty.
State TV reported that there was a shooting between rioters and protesters on the highway leading to Kyrgyzstan west of Almaty on the night of the 8th, and weapons such as automatic rifles, handguns and grenades were found in the vehicle abandoned by the protesters, as well as money such as dollars and euros.
In addition, state-run Habar 24 TV reported that a young child who went out for a walk with his parents the night before was shot and killed by a mob (anti-government protester).
A report also aired that armed protesters stormed a prison in Almaty’s capital, Taldi Korgan, killing three security guards.
This is interpreted as broadcasting in the same context as the Kazakh government defined large-scale anti-government protests triggered by a surge in gas prices as ‘terrorism’ intended by terrorists aiming to subvert the country, and defined suppression of anti-government protests as ‘counter-terrorism operations’.
They say that the anti-government demonstrations expressing anger against the government were planned by ‘terrorists’ and are focusing on blocking the sympathy and support of the residents.
The Kazakh government has also resumed internet access it had previously blocked in order to spread this message. However, there is only one state-run media that can be searched through the Internet. This is to block so-called ‘rumours’.
In the meantime, the state-run broadcaster is repeatedly sending out a message every hour, saying, “Please refrain from going out as it is an emergency right now” while broadcasting regularly.
In particular, the broadcast is not missing an order to report to the authorities, saying that the remnants of the protesters scattered in the counter-terrorism suppression can enter their homes.
AKTOBE (Archyde.com = Yonhap News) Anti-government protesters clash with riot police in Aktobe, a city in northwestern Kazakhstan, on the 5th (local time). In Kazakhstan, massive anti-government protests against rising prices have escalated clashes between armed protesters and riot police, resulting in a sharp rise in casualties. [카자흐스탄 내무부 제공. 재판매 및 DB 금지]. 2022.1.7 [email protected]
In fact, unlike the city center where ‘Martial Law’ was imposed, the residential areas of Almaty outside the city center are ostensibly regaining the appearance they had before the anti-government protests.
On this day, a holiday, grocery stores, pharmacies, and supermarkets are open and operating normally.
Nevertheless, there is still tension as you can hardly see people on the streets amid the authorities’ demands to refrain from going out.
From this day on, some international phone services are also available.
In the case of Almaty, the curfew is not lifted from 11 p.m. to 7 p.m. the next day.
Now that the anti-government protesters have disappeared, Almaty citizens are only evaluating the situation through the state-run media.
Meanwhile, Kazakhstan’s National Security Council (KGB) Chairman Kareem Maximov and First Vice Chairman Samat Abish were arrested on the 6th on charges of ‘treason against the state’ Analysts are suggesting that the protests may have been planned to overthrow the government of President Jomart Tokayev. Abish is the nephew of former President Nazarbayev.
Kazakhstan (AP = Yonhap News) Russian peacekeepers disembark from a military plane arriving at an airport in Kazakhstan, where a state of emergency has been declared following massive anti-government protests on the 6th (local time). The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a security consultative body of former Soviet countries, dispatched peacekeeping forces including Russian and Belarusian soldiers to the site at the request of the Kazakhstan government. Russia, leading the CSTO, sent airborne troops. [러시아 RU-RTR TV 영상 캡처]. 2022.1.7 [email protected]
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