Kazakhstan's ambassador to Singapore, Mr Arken Arystanov, said the professionally trained fighters who were proficient in weapons and warfare wanted to form a"zone of controlled chaos" in the central Asian country.
Mr Arystanov said a special investigation task force has been set up to look into the unrest, including the causes and crimes against civilians."The investigation is still ongoing, the findings will be publicly announced soon," he added. However, Mr Stanislav Pritchin, a senior research fellow from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said many factors drove the protests, including socio-economic imbalance. Additionally, there was no proof of foreigners' involvement in the protests.
"It's quite clear that there has been a power struggle but what we do not know is who triggered it - whether it was by Tokayev or his allies who decided to seize the opportunity or whether it was by his enemies," Mr Raffaello Pantucci, a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies , told ST.He also dismissed some of his senior security officials who were later charged with treason.
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