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Kazakhstan crackdown goes on
By EUobserver
Kazakhstan president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev fired two more senior security officials on Sunday in an ongoing crackdown following days of violent unrest. Tokayev earlier ordered his forces to shoot-to-kill protesters without warning. Russian and Kazakh state media said 164 people have been killed, citing a Kazakh social-media post, but the post was later deleted amid patchy information and internet coverage in the crisis.