[aiaskarov]

How they struggle in Kazakhstan with mercenaries

For the second year law enforcement of the republic has been using the article of the criminal code ‘Taking part in foreign military conflicts’. The rightful wrath of the justice is aimed at citizens of Kazakhstan, who go abroad on their own to take part in military conflicts, where Kazakhstan is not officially involved. Of course, the first thing which comes to mind is hundreds of our countrymen, who entered ISIS and now are coming home.
But it turned out to be the other way round. The threat has come out of where it wasn’t expected. Some young fellows travelled to South-East of Ukraine to support local militants. This is the biggest gap in the safety of Kazakhstan!
The greatest sleuths have been used against these fellows. Immediately after their return they are sued and trials are held for the quickest time possible. There are just a couple of proceedings enough to award a sentence. As defense notes, practically in all cases trial didn’t take into consideration the lack of proofs. And it obvious – Ukrainian separatists won’t give official certificate of participating in military actions. As there is no official confirmation, you can logically presuppose it.
The first tried offender was Yevgeniy Vdovenko, 30, from Akmolinsk region. He even didn’t participate in military actions, but handed out humanitarian aid, put out fires, tried to catch wreckers. Thus he got a mild punishment – 5 years of prison.
Then as an avalanche there appeared in mass media reports on trials for other volunteers, who had fought in Donbass, young people with pseudonyms ‘Rush’, ‘Terkin’, ‘Ninja’. Now they are all convicted, there was no a single verdict of not guilty.
Well, it may seem fair – there is article 172 of criminal code of Kazakhstan, if you break the law – take responsibility for it. But here we have a paradox. If we believe Ukrainian mass media and groups in social networks, there are Kazakhstan citizens in both sides of the conflict and there are a lot of our Russophobes in National Guard and ‘the right sector’. And no one of them has been put on trial so far. Maybe these people don’t return. And if so, will they get the same treatment after their all deeds?
According to KNB of Kazakhstan, in Syria-Iraq zone there fight for ISIS more than 400 citizens of Kazakhstan. Many of them have returned to the republic. Some dozens of mercenaries take part in military actions in Afghan-Pakistan zone. In mass media we managed to find just a mention about the trial for a couple of Jihadists, who even hadn’t left the country. And militants-returners are just observed by secret services, so that they couldn’t perform something illegal.
So, we see that Donetsk-Lugansk volunteers are more dangerous for the country than mercenaries of ISIS and Taliban. Here we have double standards of our justice. And the reason is – foreign policy toys.

[PluggyRug]

You just need to employ a few Samurai.

[Thanos]

Kazakhstan? Very Nice!