(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, Jan. 10
Trend:
Almost 8,000 people were detained in Kazakhstan in connection with the riots, Trend reports referring to the center of the Kazakh Interior Ministry.
“Some 7,939 people were detained throughout the country,” the center said.“Law enforcement officers, together with the servicemen of the National Guard and special forces in Almaty, detained 207 people at two markets. Five stolen cars, stolen inventory items, two smoothbore weapons and four cold weapons were seized.”
Kazakhstan's government announced late Jan. 4 that it was restoring some price caps on liquefied petroleum gas, after the rare protests reached Almaty following a sharp rise in the price of the fuel at the start of the year.
Many Kazakhs have converted their cars to run on LPG, which is far cheaper than gasoline as a vehicle fuel in Kazakhstan because of price caps. But the government argued that the low price was unsustainable and lifted the caps on Jan. 1.
After the price of the fuel spiked, big demonstrations erupted on Jan. 2 in certain parts of the country. Public protests are illegal in the country unless their organizers file a notice in advance.
Following the development of the situation, the government declared a state of emergency all over the country. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said the government initiated anti-terrorist operations to deal with the ongoing riots.
Also, the divisions of the united peacekeeping contingent of CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization) arrived in Kazakhstan to assist in restoring order and help protect strategic objects of the country.
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