ALMATY, Jan 8 — Kazakhstan authorities have detained the former head of the national security committee on suspicion of treason, they said today as the former Soviet republic is roiled by its worst unrest in 30 years.
Dozens of people have died and public buildings across Kazakhstan have been ransacked and torched over the past week in the worst violence experienced in the Central Asian nation, a major oil and uranium producer, since it became independent in the early 1990s as the Soviet Union collapsed. The interior ministry said that more than 4,400 people had been detained since the start of the unrest.
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