If you are interested in Kazakhstan's political sphere, read more Zhanaozen massacre.

In 2011, more than 14 protestors were killed by police in the town as people clashed with police on the country's Independence Day, with unrest spreading to other towns.
According to Amnesty International, the massacre was a stark illustration of the country's poor human rights record.
And guess what...

Tony Blair gave damage-limitation advice to Kazakhstan's president and helped him craft a response which was later delivered before Western media.

telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/…
In the letter, sent on note-paper headed Office of Tony Blair, Tony Blair wrote this:

#Kazakhstan #KazakhstanProtests
Tony Blair whitewashing Zhanaozen massacre in Kazakhstan.

Why none of the UK media is covering this?
Great article from @mirrorsbreath (Elena Kostyuchenko) about Zhanaozen massacre:

"I found a woman whose brother had disappeared. Two months later, they dug his body out from the rubbish in a ravine..."

opendemocracy.net/en/odr/what-i-…

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6 Jan
Thread. #KazakhstanProtests in numbers:

✊🏼 Protestors

Wounded: 1000+
Dead: 100+
Arrested: 2400+

🚨 Police and the national guard

Wounded: 353+
Dead: 17

#Kazakhstan
#KazakhstanProtests by city.

Shymkent

✊🏼 Protestors

Wounded: Unknown
Dead: Unknown
Arrested: Unknown

🚨 Police and the national guard

Wounded: Unknown
Dead: 4
Almaty

✊🏼 Protestors

Wounded: 500+
Dead: 100+
Arrested: 2000+

🚨 Police and the national guard

Wounded: 353
Dead: 13

#KazakhstanProtests #Kazakhstan
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6 Jan
Turkey and the UAE have been at loggerheads because of Turkish allegations that the Emirates had funded a failed 2016 military attempt to topple President Erdogan and Emirati objections to Turkish support for political Islam, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood.
Turkey and the UAE have fought military and political proxy battles in Libya, Syria, the Eastern Mediterranean, and France, where they were on opposite sides of the divide.
Furthermore, Ankara supported Qatar and expanded its military presence in the Gulf state during the 3.5 year-long UAE-Saudi-led diplomatic and economic boycott of Qatar that was lifted in January.
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6 Jan
Pakistani political and military leaders have vowed to eradicate ultra-conservative religious extremism that drove a mob to torture, brutally lynch a Sri Lankan national, and burn his body in the eastern city of Sialkot.
235 people arrested in connection with the killing.
Kazakhstan's some TV channels started to show "doctored" footage from the events.
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6 Jan
Iranian support for Arab militias has long threatened Iran’s foes, unable to develop an effective counterstrategy.
A string of recent events suggests that the usefulness of at least some of the militias in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and Palestine is fading as their popularity reduced and relations with Tehran encounter headwinds.
Of course, Tehran is not going to dump its non-state Arab allies.

They remain too powerful a military force to defeat and valuable leverage of Iranian regional power in Lebanon and Iraq even if they may be past the peak of their lifecycle.
Read 5 tweets
6 Jan
Nursultan Nazarbayev was the last barricade blocking a Russian-Kazakh confrontation.

But as he got older and weaker, Putin managed to beat him.
Most Kazakh activists pushing for Russian inherited from Soviet days to take second place to Kazakh as the country’s primary language.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov charged that xenophobia had sparked several attacks on Russian speakers in Kazakhstan.
Meanwhile...

Alexander Boroday, a former separatist leader in Ukraine’s Donetsk-turned-member of the Russian parliament stated:

“Unfortunately, in Asia, only the language of power is well understood." - referring to Kazakhstan.
Read 9 tweets
6 Jan
Thread. Good morning. Another turbulent day is expected in #Kazakhstan.

Shootout at Republix square in Almaty (Source: Sputnik Kazakhstan)

#KazakhstanProtests
The military on armored personnel carriers and armored vehicles managed to encircle protestors in Almaty's city centre.

#Kazakhstan #KazakhstanProtests
A large-scale "cleanup" from looters began in Almaty as of this morning.

The military and representatives of law enforcement agencies are taking part in the operation, the Mir 24 TV channel reports.

#Kazakhstan #KazakhstanProtests
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