{"id":40392,"date":"2022-01-07T15:16:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T06:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/07\/kazakhstan-protests-thousands-detained-as-president-says-order-mostly-restored"},"modified":"2022-01-07T18:18:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T09:18:59","slug":"kazakhstan-protests-thousands-detained-as-president-says-order-mostly-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40392","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan president says he gave order to \u2018open fire with lethal force\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kassym-Jomart Tokayev calls protesters \u2018bandits and terrorists\u2019 and says use of force will continue<\/p>\n<p>Kazakhstan\u2019s president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has said he personally gave the order to security forces and army to \u201copen fire with lethal force\u201d against protesters he called \u201cbandits and terrorists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In an uncompromising address on Friday, Tokayev said lethal force without warning would continue to be used against violent demonstrators, and also blamed \u201cso-called free media outlets\u201d for helping fan unrest.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/07\/kazakhstan-protests-thousands-detained-as-president-says-order-mostly-restored\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kassym-Jomart Tokayev calls protesters \u2018bandits and terrorists\u2019 and says use of force will continueKazakhstan\u2019s president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has said he personally gave the order to security forces and army to \u201copen fire with lethal force\u201d against&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2777,"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":[262,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kazakhstan","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40392","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\/2777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40418,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40392\/revisions\/40418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}