Ferghana.ru has an interview with Galymzhan Zhakiyanov in which he speaks of all manner of things such as his imprisonment, what he thinks of the revolutions in other parts of the former Soviet Union, and the murder of Altynbek Sarsenbaev. He says he thinks the murder was undoubtedly a political assassination carried out by the government.
All sorts of hypotheses but political were put forth – a hunting accident, banal crime, conflict with business rivals… The men who knew Altynbek know better. When the suspected murderers were finally arrested, all denials became pointless because of who the arrestees were – officers of the National Security Committee. The interior minister then said that it had been a contract killing organized by Yerzhan Utembayev, chief of the senate’s apparat. Utembayev was bagged and allegedly confessed. He said he had wanted Sarsenbayev killed out of personal animosity. The investigation even claims that Utembayev loaned $60,000 to pay the killers. And society is supposed to swallow it! Everybody knows what this hypothesis really is – a pack of lies. How bloodthirsty a man ought to be to have his “offender” and two innocent people murdered! In the meantime I know that Utembayev is not like that, not like what the authorities present him to be. I know what I’m talking about because I know Utembayev. We worked together once. Besides, even his alleged “personal animosity” is extremely suspicious as a motive. After all, Sarsenbayev and he have never met.
He thinks that Sarsenbaev was killed because he supplied inspiration and direction to Kazakhstan’s political opposition.
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It is worrying, to think about it, I try to think otherwise and to deny perhaps the inevitable truth.
It is more worrying if You consider new wave of rapprochement with the dictator Karimov, hope that Nazarbaev is not overtaken by his personal affection to Karimov because of his toughness and decisiveness when it comes to solving the question of opposition. i.e. rapidly and ruthlessly, not only to deal with the opposition leaders but with their families as well as relatives, party itself and anyone somehow affiliated to it; and learn few lessons how to blackmail and assassinate the opposition leaders and parties in general.
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