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Special report by Alexander Kots:
[KP] - Honestly, at some point I thought that everything, kapets the country, - a familiar local businessman meets me at the railway station of Almaty . - There was a feeling that everything fell apart, especially when the security forces completely disappeared from the city for two days. I underestimated Tokayev (President of Kazakhstan - Ed.), I thought he would fly to Rostov.
We are barely trudging through the dead traffic jams that suddenly fettered Alma-Ata, along which armed militants were running just a few days ago. My friend gets angry because he doesn't understand the nature of such congestion. Traffic cops are standing around, directing the creeping streams to bypass the center. But as soon as you try to go around the block that has arisen, new traffic cops appear and again drive you into a traffic jam.
Suddenly, a cortege accompanied by armored vehicles bursts past us into the center of the city, cleared of cars, and a helicopter flies along its route from above. By it, I understood for the next half day - where it is definitely not worth going by car. The "spinner" accompanied the convoy of the President of Kazakhstan, who came to his hometown to meet with the relatives of the deceased security officials - their portraits are now on electronic screens along the city roads. And look at the consequences of the pogroms.
"ELITE BANKS AND TURKISH SHOPS Marauders DIDN'T TOUCH"
I will say this - I expected to see a more apocalyptic picture in Alma-Ata . Reports from here in the first days of January drew a battle canvas on which no stone was left from the city. In fact, the looting affected only a small part of the city in the direction of the movement of the pogromists. But for Kazakhstan this is also unprecedented!
At the same time, the looting was suspiciously selective. In the middle of the smashed windows stands an intact supermarket of the Turkish chain. And the avalanche of marauders stopped just before the junction, behind which the offices of all the largest banks in Kazakhstan begin in fashionable buildings made of glass and concrete. Obviously, someone controlled the marauders and did not let them approach the elite facilities where they could take out all their class hatred.
Traces of urban battles (and I have seen enough of them over 20 years of work in "hot spots"), too, were found not many. Moreover, where the terrorists met with resistance (for example, at the local police department), they retreated without getting involved in long skirmishes. And where there was no resistance, and there is no need to shoot.
In essence, it was a classic terrorist attack with clear targets for which the militants were not going to inflame a lot of resources. Capture police station arsenals. To take control of the entrances to the city and the airport, through which help could come by air to the security forces. To speak on television, announcing some "South Kazakhstan" velayat and raise the "green banner of Islam" over the burned down akimat. The pogroms and robberies provoked by professional coordinators were a screen and proceeded in parallel with the capture of the city. It's just that no one expected that the central government would issue an order for harsh suppression - the curators did not warn about this from the “werewolf” security forces.
And nobody expected the CSTO
SHOOTING AND CUTTING OBLIGATELY PROFESSIONALS
However, a lot of blood was shed anyway. And in Alma-Ata they are sure that the official figures of the victims of the pogrom are at least three times underestimated.
The local ambulance station refused to give me exact numbers. But they told how the doctors had to work in real combat conditions, being attacked by militants. And they shared some interesting, previously unheard details.
- From 4 to 7 January 11,500 calls were received. We served 9100. A third is injuries, gunshot, cut, beaten, - the acting Acting told me. Director of the Ambulance Service Andrey Lozhkin. - We could not get to many patients because of the cordons and riots, because the brigades were attacked. We did not divide: strikers, non-strikers, policemen, not policemen. They could not be made out. Many of the strikers changed into police uniforms.
- Do you know that for sure?
- The policemen dressed in civilian clothes, because they were really killed there! The strikers did not allow us to provide assistance to the police. For this purpose, they stopped us. They searched cars, looked for police officers.
- What was the state of the people? And what are the injuries?
- In the beginning, of course, they were of moderate severity. Then they went already heavy, when weapons began to be used. Our guys and corpses were taken out, because they were captured. Basically, serious injuries from the evening of January 5th and 6th, gunshot. Head, chest and cut. The legs were mainly hit in the thighs, in the gluteal region, so that there was a lot of blood loss. Most likely, they were some kind of professionals ...
The thiefs took the corpses of their people
- 5 of our workers were injured - two drivers and three paramedics, - Shaykhidin Badirov, the deputy director for the medical department, shared with me. “The bandits say: don’t help the police, take care of our people. Leave those.
- They say the thugs took the corpses of their accomplices from the streets ... Is it true?
- It was so. At the 4th substation, the bandits forcibly took one ambulance brigade to take out the corpses from the Republic Square.
- Did the militants take out the corpses of their people?
- Well, yes.
The paramedic of that very substation Sergazy Abyllayev was attacked near Republic Square.
- On January 4, closer to ten, shooting began, grenades, noise. At that moment, a call was received to provide medical assistance to a police officer. Three people were loaded into our car, one of them was unconscious, two were seriously wounded. At that moment, our ambulance was attacked. They started throwing stones at us, broke the windows, the side door, opened the back door, threw a tear grenade. The second grenade was either a combat grenade or some kind of noise grenade. We managed to throw it out through the window.
- And what kind of people were they? Were you able to see them? Is it local? Not local? Are they Kazakhs or foreigners?
- There were different nations. I cannot say that only Kazakhs. They were young, yes, maybe 20-25 years old. Well, it was hard. They don't even come into contact with you in order to talk calmly.
From 4 to 7, 11,500 calls were received
- Have you tried?
- Yes. I tried: calm down, please. They don't listen to you. They swear: give us a policeman, don't help him, let, roughly speaking, die here. But we have completed this matter anyway. And they were hospitalized in the hospital urgently.
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