Deputy Prime Minister and Russian Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tleuberdi said that many among armed participants in the republic did not speak Kazakh or Russian, but on “other Asian languages”. It is reported by RIA Novosti.
“As for the terrorist organizations, first, we believe that they belong to Islamist radical groups,” said Tleuberdi during a press conference after a meeting in Vienna with Austrian colleague Alexander Sallenberg. He referred to the words of his friends from Almaty and ambassadors who became eyewitness protests reported to him that “among armed strikers there were many those who spoke in Kazakh with a strong accent, which shows that they were not native speakers.”
In addition, the minister added, a doctor from medical institutions, where the wounded wounded protesters were hospitalized also told that “they did not speak in Kazakh or Russian.” “That is, they spoke on other Asian languages,” summarized Tleuberdi. He added that the attackers also acted as “Islamist radicals”, recalling that two policemen were beheaded that they were “attacked morgues and took the 41 body of the attackers.” Vice Prime Minister noted that they “acted as radical extremists, they did not want the bodies to be identified.”
On January 2, mass protests began in Kazakhstan due to the sharp rise in gas prices for cars. Soon the economic demands were replaced by political, and the rallies turned into riots. In several cities, building buildings were set fire. For the suppression of the riots threw the army. The President of Kazakhstan Kasim-Zhomart Tokayev called protesters to terrorists and turned to the organization of collective security treaty. Peacekeepers have been protected by large infrastructure projects.