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Human rights movement in Kazakhstan.

Mar 28, 2022, 7 tweets

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"CAME IN APC VEHICLES AND FIRED NON-STOP"

15 March 2022 #Almaty

On 18 February 2022, peaceful protester Bek #SYRYM testified in an interview with Azattyq about how the military shot peaceful protesters on 6 January 2022 in the city square.

@eu_eeas

#ActivistsNotExtremists

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Bek SYRYM, a witness to the shooting in the square:

📍 "We were in the square. They brought us food in a cauldron. People did not leave each other without support, they brought meat, rice and cooked food.

@MalinBjork_EU
@karstenlucke
@KGroselj

#Kazakhstanprotests

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We were sitting and eating and at that moment, the military came again. We ran out, holding placards in our hands and stood in one row.

@anceschistan
@eaGlobalEU

#ProtestJanuary2022
#Zhanaozen2022

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The older man was lying on his back. I looked at the girl's face, I think she was shot in the face and there was blood all over her face. It made my heart ache to see that and I covered her face.

#Magnitsky #NoToCorruption
#IACD2021

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From: azattyq.org/.../kazakhstan…

📌 On 7 January 2022, TOKAYEV gave the order (publicly) to shoot to kill without warning, but numerous eyewitness testimonies from witnesses such as Bek SYRYM indicate that the military and police started shooting at civilians earlier.

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On 14 March 2022, in an interview with journalists, General Prosecutor Berik #ASYLOV said that "there were no 20,000 foreign terrorists, I don't know where you got that": inbusiness.kz/.../v-kazahsta…...

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