Kassym-Jomart Tokayev tells security forces to ‘use lethal force without warning’
The president of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has promised an uncompromising crackdown on demonstrators in the country, telling security forces they should “use lethal force without warning” against protesters he called “bandits and terrorists”.
As relative calm returned to the country on Friday, after several days in which internet and mobile phone networks were disabled, the human cost of the week started to become apparent.
