Participants in mass riots and radical groups were able to capture almost without resistance and keep Almaty Airport due to possible treason in the special services of Kazakhstan. The ex-advisor of the first president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev Ermukhamet Yertysbayev was announced on this on the air of the Khabar 24 TV channel Nursultan.
“The organization was so powerful, it would be impossible without traitors in the highest echelons of power,” the former official explained. According to him, for an unknown reason 40 minutes before an attack on the air harbor, local security forces received an order to remove the cordon. Who was given by this order, while it is unknown.
“This is possible only with the direct connivance of those people who must be responsible for security in the country. This is a state treason,” said Ertysbayev.
previously it became known that the Kazakh army was able to repel from the protesting airport of Alma-Ata. On the morning of January 7, airplanes with Russian military began to arrive there in the framework of the CSTO peacekeeping mission. Now the airport takes only military aviation. The ban on the flights of civil courts will operate at least until January 9.
Protests in Kazakhstan began on Sunday, January 2, due to the increase in gas prices for cars from 60 to 120 tenge (from 10 to 20 rubles) per liter. Soon, economic requirements were replaced by political: government resignation, holding new elections, consideration of the issue of lustration of people from the “clan” of the former President of Nursultan Nazarbayev.
To Wednesday, January 5, rallies have grown into bulk riots. In Alma-Ata, shops, banks were plundered, captured by the airport building, police plots, government agencies and infrastructure facilities. Army was sent to suppressing speeches. President Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev appealed to the CSTO with a request to send troops to protect the country from armed gangs.