Ethnic tensions have flared up in Kazakhstan following a deadly New Year’s Eve brawl involving Armenians. According to reports, an alcohol-fueled fight broke out at the Ancient Rome restaurant in Kazakhstan’s central town of Karaganda. Officials say a 23 year-old Kazakh man was stabbed to death. Four others were also injured.
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Why they doing that so easy??? They not feeling response and panishment
By power of Moskow they can do anything there They knew Kazakhstan under Russia Because
Putin’s first political warning and ultimatum to Pashinyan!
Instead of closely monitoring the situation, they should look at this as an opportunity to encourage repatriation. This is what Israel has been doing now for decades. Use security concerns to convince people that the only place where they will feel safe and avoid potential ethnic clashes and violence is your historical homeland. I understand that the oil windfall has brought some degree of prosperity to Kazakhstan but judging by numbers and the level of corruption in the country, I doubt those Armenians are living in perfect conditions. There should be certain programs targeting certain diaspora Armenian communities in countries like Kazakhstan or Ukraine where the economic situation is far from perfect to repatriate.
This is a terrible tragedy but it is not clear what started it and led to the fight. Unfortunately such things can happen anywhere and do happen when the youth are involved and surely alcohol could play a major role in it because people are incapable of thinking straight. What’s interesting and very suspicious is that this isolated incident has created such a tension between the groups involved. I have no doubt other non-Kazakh groups hostile to Armenians are behind the tension between the two and are trying to exploit the situation against the Armenians there. They should let the law take care of this, like they would in any other similar case, and those responsible for instigating such hatred between the two should be identified and prosecuted for hate crimes to the full extent of the law. Those behind creating these tensions, who I am sure are not native Kazakhs, and trying to turn this isolated incident into an ethnic conflict are criminals and should be penalized for their clandestine racist criminal actions. I have never known Armenians and Kazakhs having any problems and this is the dirty work of others who want to take advantage of this tragedy to create problems there between the two groups.
I have to agree with GB on this one. Most likely the hand of “Mother Russia” is somehow involved here, not surprisingly coinciding with Russia raising gas prices, instead of, you know, lowering them based on “centuries of Russian-Armenian friendship”. Let’s remember that these Turkic central Asian quasi-states are basically also all extensions of Russia. The criminals of Armenia calling themselves “the government of Armenia” for the past three decades have also been busy turning Armenia into a pseudo-state extension of Russia. I would actually say that they have somewhat succeeded.
I have to disagree on this. This has the fingerprints of the homeless Tatar Azerbaijanis all over it. Think about it. Who is the most active in trying to portray the Armenians in bad light every chance they get? Who is always trying to win the sympathy of Muslims worldwide against the Armenians? Who is trying to exploit the Artsakh conflict as an attack not just on artificial Azerbaijan but an attack on entire Turkic nations? Who is always busy trying to spread misinformation about Armenians worldwide? Who was it that recently declared all Armenians, regardless of origin, are the enemies of Azerbaijan? None other than unscrupulous, scheming charlatan, and coward Azerbaijanis and their racist leaders. Visit some of the Azeri online news sites and you will see over half the news is about denigrating the Armenians and portraying them as criminals. Additionally, I remember reading on one of their racist sites many years ago that their government has a special department dedicated to spewing lies and nonsense about Armenians called the Department of Misinformation! I have NO doubt whatsoever the Azeri hyenas are behind this.
Something else that I wanted to mention, which should be taken into account, is the fact that Armenians in Central Asian Turkic nations have always had high levels of respect from their populations and known for their business savvy and peaceful coexistence. AND that it was the racist Azerbaijanis, at their top leadership level, that when the Armenian-Azeri conflict began traveled to these Turkic countries in attempts to create problems for Armenians there to have them uprooted and thrown out of there by trying to exploit FALSE Turkic kinship from these nations and they failed. No doubt we have multiple enemies but today these homeless Tatar Azeris are at the top of the list and we must hit them and hit them hard and put them back in their place just like we did a quarter century ago.
I guess you have a good point, if Azeris are targeting and harming any cause of Armenians in far places like the USA, they would have a much easier time in those central asian countries. I’m just still suspicious about Pashinyan not meeting the “standards” that Russia expects from Armenia, and they still do have a lot of influence in those counties and basically can get them to do whatever they want.