{"id":40361,"date":"2022-01-06T23:59:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T14:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/protesters-police-die-amid-kazakhstan-unrest"},"modified":"2022-01-07T02:54:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T17:54:48","slug":"dozens-of-protesters-and-police-dead-amid-kazakhstan-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40361","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of protesters and police dead amid Kazakhstan unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses in Almaty describe scenes of chaos in streets as Russian \u2018peacekeepers\u2019 arrive in country<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/kazakhstan-unrest-what-are-the-protests-about\">What are the protests about? <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dozens of protesters and at least 12 police officers have died in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/kazakhstan-unrest-what-are-the-protests-about\">ongoing violence in Kazakhstan<\/a>, authorities have claimed, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/05\/kazakhstan-protests-president-threatens-ruthless-crackdown\">\u201cpeacekeepers\u201d from a Russian-led military alliance<\/a> arrived in the country at the request of the embattled president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses in Almaty, Kazakhstan\u2019s largest city, described scenes of chaos on Thursday, with government buildings being stormed or set on fire and widespread looting. Many of those demonstrating said the protests had begun peacefully earlier in the week, and turned violent after a heavy-handed government response.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/protesters-police-die-amid-kazakhstan-unrest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses in Almaty describe scenes of chaos in streets as Russian \u2018peacekeepers\u2019 arrive in countryWhat are the protests about? Dozens of protesters and at least 12 police officers have died in ongoing violence in Kazakhstan, authorities have claimed, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[221,262,419,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-kazakhstan","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40373,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40361\/revisions\/40373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}