This operation had been deployed in the former Soviet Republic on January 6 and must be completed by January 22, according to the CBSO and the Kazakh authorities.
Le Monde
The forces carried out by Russia launched, Thursday, January 13, their withdrawal of Kazakhstan, where they had been hurried to support the power in place against unprecedented riots, announced the Russian Ministry of Defense.
A solemn ceremony with the soldiers of the Organization of the Collective Safety Treaty (OTSC), Military Alliance led by Moscow, who participated in the operation, took place on this occasion in the morning in Almaty, main city Kazakhe, according to a correspondent of the France-Press agency.
“The peacekeeping operation is over (…), the tasks have been fulfilled,” welcomed the Russian General Andrei Serdioukov General, commander of the OTSC quota comprising 2 030 Russian troops, Belarus, Armenian, Tajikes and Kyrgyz.
The withdrawal should end before January 22
These men had been deployed in the former Soviet Republic on January 6 and must complete their departure before January 22, according to the CBSO and the Kazakh authorities.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the troops began “preparing military and technical equipment for loading in Russian aviation devices for a return to their permanent base”.
They also started to give the forces of the order Kazakhes the infrastructures and buildings for which they had been safe since several days. In addition, Almaty airport, closed since last week after being rampacked, hosted its first civil flight on Thursday.
Kazakhstan was shaken last week with violence ever seen since its independence, in 1991. They did dozens of deaths and hundreds of injury, pushed to the deployment of the peacekeeping contingent piloted by Russia. , and brought to the arrest of at least 12,000 people.
The most serious violence took place in Almaty with exchange of shots, the looting of shops and the fire of the town hall and the presidential residence. The riots have been described as “terrorist aggression” by the authorities, which, however, have not provided concrete evidence in this direction. They had erupted after demonstrations against the rise in fuel prices, on the bottom of degradation of the standard of living and endemic corruption in this former Soviet state.
Russian President’s support
The version of the facts put forward by the Kazakh authorities has received in any case received support from the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and other countries in the region.
The Kazakh power has still not published a precise human assessment of these events, while emutors and law enforcement clashed with the automatic weapon, leaving a very high number of victims.
In the wake of these murderers, the President of Kazakhstan also launched an offensive against his powerful predecessor, Nursoultan Nazarbayev, as well as his allies and the members of his family who control whole sections of the economy and remained very influential in the arcana of the regime. He accused his father in politics for favoring the emergence of a “caste of rich” overlooking this state full of hydrocarbons.
President Kazakh, who made his entire career in the shadow of his mentor, also announced that the elite who has been enriched for thirty years should supply a fund to “pay a tribute” to the population Kazakhe.
One of the weight allies of Mr. Nazarbayev, Karim Massimov, was also arrested Saturday for high betrayal after being limited from the head of secret services.