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Police and military personnel could not fight the protesters during the riots because they did not have firearms with them. This was stated by the mayor of Alma-Ata Bakytzhan Sagintayev, whose opinion is quoted by the RBC.
As the head of the administration of the largest city in Kazakhstan, where the riots were most violent, the security forces had only shields and rubber batons. They also used anti-noise grenades to repel the protesters. attacked the security forces with clearly aggressive intentions. The mayor noted that tens of thousands of people took to the streets and began attacking unarmed police officers, so it is not very correct to say that the security forces surrendered.
The head of the city administration also promised to compensate the entrepreneurs whose businesses suffered as a result of the mass unrest, the losses they incurred. The Kazakh authorities have previously announced that two- and three-room flats will be allocated to the families of the soldiers and police officers killed.
Mass unrest in Kazakhstan began on January 2, 2022 protests in Zhanaozen and Aktau. They then spread to other cities in the country, including Alma-Ata, where the protests escalated into riots with armed clashes with police and military personnel.
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