Almaty: eighteen people were killed and 243 were injured during the unrest Uzbekistanautonomous province of karakalpak breast Uzbek officials said on Monday that plans to reduce its autonomy broke down last week.
Security forces detained 516 people as they dispersed protesters last Friday, but have now released many of them, the National Guard press office told a briefing.
President on Saturday Shaukat Mirziyoyev Plans to amend articles of the constitution relating to the autonomy of Karakalpakstan and its right to secede were dropped. He also declared a month-long state of emergency in the Northwest Province.
Official reports said demonstrators marched through the provincial capital Nukus last Friday and tried to seize local government buildings, sparking the deadliest violence in the Central Asian country of 34 million in nearly two decades.
Karakalpakstan, located on the coast of the Aral Sea, which has been the site of an environmental disaster for decades, is home to Karakalpak, an ethnic minority group whose language is closer to Kazakh than to Uzbek.
Mirziyoyev Spoke to the President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, on Monday, which is home to the largest Karakalpak diaspora abroad. tokayevThe U.S. office said they welcomed Tashkent’s measures to ensure stability in Karakalpakstan.
Security forces detained 516 people as they dispersed protesters last Friday, but have now released many of them, the National Guard press office told a briefing.
President on Saturday Shaukat Mirziyoyev Plans to amend articles of the constitution relating to the autonomy of Karakalpakstan and its right to secede were dropped. He also declared a month-long state of emergency in the Northwest Province.
Official reports said demonstrators marched through the provincial capital Nukus last Friday and tried to seize local government buildings, sparking the deadliest violence in the Central Asian country of 34 million in nearly two decades.
Karakalpakstan, located on the coast of the Aral Sea, which has been the site of an environmental disaster for decades, is home to Karakalpak, an ethnic minority group whose language is closer to Kazakh than to Uzbek.
Mirziyoyev Spoke to the President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, on Monday, which is home to the largest Karakalpak diaspora abroad. tokayevThe U.S. office said they welcomed Tashkent’s measures to ensure stability in Karakalpakstan.