{"id":40423,"date":"2022-01-08T03:09:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T18:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/07\/kazakhstan-president-vows-to-destroy-bandits-and-terrorists-behind-protests"},"modified":"2022-01-08T03:09:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T18:09:48","slug":"kazakhstan-president-vows-to-destroy-bandits-and-terrorists-behind-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40423","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan president vows to destroy \u2018bandits and terrorists\u2019 behind protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kassym-Jomart Tokayev tells security forces to \u2018use lethal force without warning\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The president of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has promised an uncompromising crackdown on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/04\/kazakhstan-president-declares-state-of-emergency-in-protest-hit-areas\">demonstrators in the country<\/a>, telling security forces they should \u201cuse lethal force without warning\u201d against protesters he called \u201cbandits and terrorists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, relative calm returned to Almaty, Kazakhstan\u2019s largest city and the centre of recent tumult, and some residents ventured out for the first time in several days. They found looted shops, shattered glass and many burnt-out cars, with the grim atmosphere intensified by the thick mist enveloping the city.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/07\/kazakhstan-president-vows-to-destroy-bandits-and-terrorists-behind-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kassym-Jomart Tokayev tells security forces to \u2018use lethal force without warning\u2019The president of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has promised an uncompromising crackdown on demonstrators in the country, telling security forces they should \u201cuse leth&#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":[262,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kazakhstan","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\/40423","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=40423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40424,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40423\/revisions\/40424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}