The former adviser to the first president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, named the reasons for the unrest in the country and, mainly, the seizure of Almaty airport.
According to Ermukhamet Ertysbaev, the successful actions of the radicals can be explained by high treason in the ranks of the local special services.
Yertysbayev noted that the instigators of the riots seized the Almaty airport without resistance and held it, thanks to the possible treason of the Kazakh special services.
The organization was so powerful, it would have been impossible without traitors in the highest echelons of power,” the official said on the TV channel “.”
The politician also drew attention to the fact that 40 minutes before the seizure of the airport, the security forces guarding it received an order to lift the cordon.
Who gave such an order and why remains to be seen, but this could have happened “with the direct connivance of those people who should be responsible for security in the country,” the ex-adviser said.
This is high treason,” concluded Ermukhamet Ertysbaev.
Let us remind you that the Kazakh security forces recaptured the air harbor, thanks to which on the morning of January 7, planes with representatives of the CSTO peacekeeping mission began to land there.
Until January 9, civil aviation flights are prohibited, and the airport serves only military aircraft.
Let us remind you that the unrest in Kazakhstan began on January 2. The reason was the increase in gas prices for refueling cars.
Very soon, political demands were added to the economic demands of the protesters, and the rallies took on the character of mass riots and escalated into clashes with security forces.
This forced the country’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to turn to the CSTO for help.
