Tbilisi
The transition from power to autocratic rule is rarely easy.
The violence that agitated Kazakhstan in this first week of January is a painful illustration of this.
What started with peaceful demonstrations to oppose the doubling of the price of a fuel widely used in the oil west of the country, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), quickly turned into riots as violent as they were organized.
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It was in Almaty that the violence broke out, even though 11 regions of the immense former Soviet republic suffered "
aggression
", according to the president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
It is an "
attempted coup
", concluded this last Monday morning.
164 people are said to have lost their lives, including more than a hundred in Almaty, the economic capital of the country.
On Wednesday afternoon, the demonstrators, who after having obtained the return at the price of LPG before January 1, demanded political reforms, were overwhelmed by violent hordes, dragging with them ...
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