The oil-rich country located in Central Asia has been the scene of massive protests in the last few days.
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets and the situation soon escalated into riots of unprecedented levels.
Police and military were unable to stop the angry crowd, so what’s going on in Kazakhstan?
Kazakhstan, a Central Asian nation of about 19 million people is not a country where protests happen often.
But last Sunday on January 2, several hundred people took to the streets in Zhanaozen, a city located in western Kazakhstan, to protest against high gas (LPG) prices. The price went from about 12-14 U.S. cents at the end of 2021, to 28 cents in the new year.
The protests soon spread to the rest of the country, the largest the country has seen since it gained independence on December 16, 1991. Thousands of people also started taking part in the protests in the former capital of Almaty.
But what started as a protest against rising fuel prices quickly grew into a expression of general dissatisfaction with the government, because even after the announcement on Tuesday that the fuel prices were to be lowered again the protests did not stop.
Even after President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced the resignation from his cabinet last Wednesday, it did not appear that the population was satisfied with this.
Rule by force is the disease, who and how are symtpoms.
i dont get why we dont get more coverage on this worldwide...
That would be showing the people what they are able to do....examples of success show people that they can do 'that' too.....if your news did not cover this, they are Not working for you.
they dont the manufacture consent still missing such an event or downplaying it so much really shows how far ahead the manipulation goes...
Most definitely there is a long road they have already paved...they just keep the people focused on walking the path that they want them to go down....they walk backwards along a road they know where it leads....false flags all the way and yet the people like lemmings keep walking after them.
It is time to go back to reality, real life where tangible real people are the answer to what must happen if we are to proceed in a beneficial way.
Best I can figger at this time is that Tokaev and Putin have ousted Nursultan Nazarbayev, and are presently solidifying Tokaev's rule.
All I know is from some social media postings from Kazakhs on the ground, seeing some videos of guns being provided to protesters, and security forces surrendering prior to Nazarbayev's flight from the country. Once he was gone, Tokaev stated protesters would be shot on sight, and Russian forces officially entered the country to suppress demonstrations.
Looks like a coup to me.