'Don't Shoot': Kazakhs Abroad Call For Calm As Russia Sends In Troops To Quell Uprising

kazakh protesters in London have a simple communication as Russia transferred in paratroopers to quell an insurrection after deadly violence spread across the former Soviet democracy” Do not shoot Dozens of people have been killed in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s biggest megacity, during the uneasiness. Reuters intelligencers on the ground said a presidential hearthstone and the mayor’s office had both been set ablaze We don’t support foreign military forces in our country,”Sabyr, a 33- time-old Kazakh, told Reuters in London. He supplicated forces not to shoot at the protesters in Kazakhstan.

Sabyr, who declined to give his alternate name, was one of a small group of Kazakhs who gathered outside the Kazakh delegacy in London late on Wednesday He held a bill with the watchword”Shal Ket”which means” old man out”-a reference to Nursultan Nazarbayev, 81, Kazakhstan’s consummate leader since Soviet times. Others held posters reading” Do not Shoot”and”We’re with you”.

‘ Demurrers AGAINST Despotism’ The demurrers are against despotism, the despotism of a absolutism that has been unchanged for further than 30 times,”Sabyr told Reuters.”The people of Kazakhstan are floundering for their freedom.”

Nazarbayev, first tagged chairman in 1990 as the Soviet Union atrophied, steered the vast campo nation through independence, attracting foreign investment into the energy and essence sectors and balancing ties with important neighbours Russia and China. He stepped down as chairman in 2019. His hand- picked successor, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, called in forces from supporter Russia overnight as part of a Moscow- led military alliance ofex-Soviet countries tokayev criticized the uneasiness on what he said were foreign-trained terrorists who had seized structures and munitions.