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The 2022 Kazakh unrest, [a] also known as January Events, [b] [15] [16] [17] Bloody January, [c] [18] [19] or the January Tragedy, [d] [20] [21] was a series of mass protests and civil unrest that began in Kazakhstan on 2 January 2022 after a sudden sharp increase in liquefied petroleum gas prices following the lifting of a government-enforced price cap on 1 January.
In the 1870s–80s, schools in Kazakhstan massively started to open, which developed elite, future Kazakh members of the Alash party. In 1916, after conscription of Muslims into the military for service in the Eastern Front during World War I , Kazakhs and Kyrgyzs rose up against the Russian government, with uprisings until February 1917.
2020 Dungan–Kazakh ethnic clashes [12] [13] [14] 2021 – Street clashes have agitated Pidzimè, a Kazakh town in the province of Panfilovo. The local authorities spoke of a "fight between young people" that began on the night of October 28 with verbal clashes and ended in a brawl with the use of sticks and improvised weapons.
Kazakhstan is one of 47 members of the UN Human Rights Council. [12] Kazakhstan is party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which gave legal status to the Declaration of Human Rights. In 2020 Kazakhstan signed the international protocol on abolition of death penalty to formally renounce the punishment. [13]
In 2008, the Church in Kazakhstan affirmed its Asiatic identity when its episcopal conference was formally accepted into the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences. [ 3 ] In 2022 three of the Catholic Church's bishops issued calls for peace, following the episodes of civil unrest that led to hundreds of deaths in the country.
Kazakh spetnaz at the International Army Games. The Special Forces of Kazakhstan (Kazakh: Қазақстанның арнайы жасағы; Russian: Спецназ Казахстана) trace their history to the Soviet era spetsnaz units operating on the territory of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic within the USSR.
In an attempt to keep unity within the Soviet Union, the country held a referendum on 16 March 1991; Kazakhstan voted 95% in favor of a new Union of Sovereign States.After the aborted coup d'état in August, the Supreme Soviet (Kazakhstan) passed the Constitutional Independence Law of Republic of Kazakhstan on 16 December 1991.