Kazakhstan: analysis of a protest movement suffocated by tanks

By Guillermo Abril (El País)

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The demonstrations ended in a bloodbath, with shootings, looting, burning of government buildings, terror spreading among the inhabitants, the arrival of Russian tanks, hundreds of deaths, thousands of detainees, a cut information and the return to a strange

militarized "

". Yet for a few days in early January, when activists, opponents and thousands of others took to the streets of Kazakhstan peacefully to protest rising fuel prices and demand sweeping reforms in the country, some had believed that the regime might fall. With the return to order, many had to go underground to continue the struggle.

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At the top of an old building on the outskirts of Almaty, the country's financial capital and epicenter of the Kazakh protest movement, there is an empty apartment, without furniture.

This is where he took refuge...

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