Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan's president orders army to shoot with lethal force

An image of Kazakhstan police forces preparing to respond to protesters
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After 5 days of heavily repressed protests over higher gas prices, the President of Kazakhstan, Khassim Khomart Tokhayev, has ordered the army to "shoot without warning" and use "lethal force", and has defined the demonstrators as "bandits" and "terrorists" with foreign support.

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