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Kazakhstan vows to strengthen information security

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NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan – Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokaev has held a meeting on information security in connection with the interethnic conflict in the Kordai region in the south of the republic, Akorda said on 13 February.
Heads of departments and law enforcement agencies attended in discussion. “Kassym-Jomart Tokayev instructed law enforcement agencies to take a set of measures to prevent similar events in the future,” Akorda said.
The president demanded to strengthen work in the information space, rigidly suppressing any attempts to spread false information and provocations.
On 7 February, mass fights and riots took place in the villages of the Kordai district of the Zhambyl region. The conflict broke out in the village of Masanchi, where most of the Dungans nationality people live, and then spread to the neighboring villages – Aukhatti and Bular Batyr.
As a result, ten people died, more than a hundred were injured. On 13 February it became known that under the rubble in Masanchi human remains were found.
30 residential buildings, 17 commercial facilities and 47 vehicles were burned. The amount of damage has not been determined yet.
Police filed 25 criminal cases involving riots, riots, killings, hooliganism, violence against government officials, destruction of property, and illegal manufacture of weapons.
Masanchi village is located near the border with Kyrgyzstan, 13 thousand people live here, 90% of the inhabitants are Dungans, (ethnic Chinese preaching Islam),
5% are Kazakhs, 5% are Russians.

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