'The militants have not laid down their arms, they continue to commit crimes or are preparing for them. Whoever does not surrender will be destroyed. I have given the order to law enforcement agencies and the army to shoot to kill, without warning.'
ALMATY - Security forces appeared to have reclaimed the streets of Kazakhstan's main city on Friday after days of violence, and the Russian-backed president said he had ordered his troops to shoot to kill to put down a countrywide uprising.
Moscow said more than 70 planes were ferrying Russian troops into Kazakhstan, and that these were now helping control Almaty's main airport, recaptured on Thursday from protesters. One man who attended the first night of demonstrations and did not want to be identified said most of those who initially turned up were there to "express solidarity spontaneously", before 100-200 "aggressive youths" started hurling rocks at police. Mukhtar Ablyazov, an exiled former banker and cabinet minister turned opponent of the government, said the West must counter Russia's move.
A few hundred metres away, a dead body lay in a wrecked civilian car. In another part of the city, an ammunition shop had been ransacked.
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