The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan announced the “destruction” of protest participants who refused to lay down their arms

The Interior Ministry of Kazakhstan said that protesters who do not comply with legal requirements to lay down their arms and offer armed resistance are being killed. So the statement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was quoted by Interfax .

RIA Novosti, citing Sputnik.Kazakhstan, cited this quote from the statement of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry in a different form. This RIA Novosti message is massively reposted by Russian Telegram channels.

• Officially, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan has so far only reported data on dead and wounded law enforcement officers and the number of detained protesters. The authorities of Kazakhstan do not report data on the dead and injured participants in the protests. At the same time, eyewitnesses talk about the wounded and the dead, including on January 6 in the center of Almaty.