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Kazakhstan Probes Police Actions after Violent Clashes |
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Friday, 30 December 2011Kazakh prosecutors have opened a criminal inquiry into the local riot police's use of weapons during a protest earlier in December in which at least 16 people died.
Kazakhstan told fellow OSCE states Tuesday that the general prosecutor's office had started its own inquiry into police actions, CNN has informed.
The deaths occurred in clashes between police and oil protesting workers in Zhanaozen on December 16 and December 17. Security forces claimed that the violent clashes were provoked by rioteers themselves, while citizens said that the soldiers were out to kill.
On Wednesday, Kazakh opposition activists demanded that former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair should resign from his current position as special adviser to President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
The opposition activists claimed that Blair's links to Nazarbayev implicated him in the deaths of former oil workers after the police recently opened fire on protesters. |
Friday, 30 December 2011
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