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"Mr President, the claims by the Kazakh Government that hooligans and foreign agitators were behind the violent incidents in connection with the demonstrations by oil workers remind us of similar statements by Syria. The government and the authorities there are never to blame.
It was probably on account of international pressure and the fear of country-wide strikes that Kazakhstan changed the sentence imposed on the lawyer who gave legal advice to the striking oil workers from a prison sentence to a suspended sentence. In this regard, we should not forget that the arrest itself should never have happened in the first place.
It is also important to remember the activists and oil workers who are still awaiting trial. The fact that police officers, who, according to video footage, killed fleeing striking workers by shooting them in the back, can probably expect only mild punishments is also worthy of criticism. A full investigation of the incidents will probably only be possible by an independent international commission of inquiry. The only right and proper step can be to put an end to the violence against activists and to return to an open dialogue."@en1
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