Kazakhstan’s security services have arrested 3,811 people in connection with the unrest in the country, the interior ministry said Friday, adding that 26 participants in the incidents were killed and 26 others were injured.
A spokesman for Kazakhstan’s interior ministry said 10 security personnel had been injured in the riots, according to the Khabar-24 television network. Some of them were injured by fire, he noted.
In the previous days, there were also 33 attacks against the Fire Brigade and 30 vehicles were damaged. “The rioters attacked with stones and shot firefighters (…) who, however, managed to put out 75 fires and save 143 people,” said a spokesman for the interior ministry.
“They will grind us in the millstones, they will spit on us”
Meanwhile, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has launched a crackdown on unidentified “enemies” amid chaos in Kazakhstan.
“Kazakhstan is an attempt to attack the post-Soviet states around Russia. They want to drown Russia in blood. I repeat: if Russia collapses, then we will not even know where we are. “They will just pass over us,” Lukashenko was quoted as saying by Russia’s state-run RIA-Novosti news agency, without specifying whether he was implying the West or which countries.
“They will grind us in the millstones and spit on us. That is why, whatever the cost, we must maintain the center of our culture, the center of our Orthodoxy and beyond. “Those territories, which today are within the Russian Federation,” said the controversial Belarussian leader, among others.
Earlier, Lukashenko had publicly backed Kazakh President Kasim Tokayev’s version of a “foreign attack”, citing secret services “that caused the unrest”, without elaborating again, describing only the “gift we would give to The United States and NATO, like Ukraine, if it were not for the decision to send a peacekeeping force of 2,500 troops to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) under Russian command.
As confirmed by the Kremlin, the President of Belarus played a leading role in the telephone conversations until a consensus was reached between the leaders of Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Armenia, whose Prime Minister Nicol Pasinian .
According to Lukashenko, during the first telephone conversations with President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Nicole Pasinian, the three leaders agreed that one of the main tasks of the forces that will be sent is “to prevent the infiltration of foreign gangs to “The Kazakhs themselves, the people of this country, can solve their own internal problems”, as broadcast by the Russian agency “RIA-Novosti”.
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