B.Until now, Kazakhstan only wants to honor the memory of some of the victims of the unrest that shook the two-million metropolis of Almaty in the south-east of the country last week: the members of the security forces. According to official figures, 18 of them died. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who visited Almaty on Wednesday for the first time since the unrest, met relatives of killed police officers and soldiers, posthumously awarded medals and promised the families support. On Thursday, Almaty’s mayor announced that a memorial to the killed security forces would be erected on the Republic’s central square, “as a lesson for posterity to remember those who protected our country from terrorists, kept the peace and kept the citizens safe.” have guaranteed”.
So far there is nothing to suggest that the civilian victims should also be commemorated; not the peaceful demonstrators who, according to witnesses, were shot at on Republic Square, nor the passers-by. The number 164, which was circulating on Sunday as the official number of victims, was withdrawn, and a new one was not named. But relatives, colleagues and activists are collecting names of the dead, injured and missing online, naming names like that of Yerlan Shagiparov. According to witnesses, the archeology enthusiast was abducted by “soldiers” in Almaty while walking near Republic Square on the evening of January 6; he is said not to have taken part in protests but to have visited his mother in hospital. After days of searching, friends found Shagiparov’s body in a morgue.
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