‘Don’t shoot’: Kazakhs abroad call for calm as Russia sends in troops to quell uprising

 Kazakh dissenters in London have a straightforward message as Russia sent in paratroopers to suppress an uprising after destructive savagery spread across the previous Soviet republic: “Don’t shoot.”

 Many individuals have been killed in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s greatest city, during the turmoil. Reuters writers on the ground said an official home and the city hall leader’s office had both been set burning.

“We don’t uphold unfamiliar military powers in our nation,” Sabyr, a 33-year-old Kazakh, told Reuters in London. He beseeched powers not to take shots at the nonconformists in Kazakhstan.

Sabyr, who declined to give his subsequent name, was one of a little gathering of Kazakhs who assembled external the Kazakh government office in London late on Wednesday.

He held a notice with the trademark “Shal Ket” which signifies “elderly person out” – a reference to Nursultan Nazarbayev, 81, Kazakhstan’s vital chief since Soviet occasions. Others held notices perusing “Don’t Shoot” and “We are with you”.