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Jeltoqsan
1986 Alma-Ata protests and riots that resulted in massacre / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Jeltoqsan (Kazakh: Желтоқсан көтерілісі), also spelled Zheltoksan, or December of 1986 were protests that happened in Almaty, Kazakh SSR, when Mikhail Gorbachev replaced Dinmukhamed Kunaev to Gennady Kolbin, a Russian who never lived in Kazakhstan, as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan.[1][2]
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Jeltoqsan Kazakh: Желтоқсан көтерілісі | |||||||
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Part of Revolutions of 1989 and the Dissolution of the Soviet Union | |||||||
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168–1,000 civilians killed More than 200 injured |
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The protests happened from 16 to 19 January 1986. The protests started in the morning of 17 December, as a student march. The government sent troops, and violence broke out. In the following days, protests spread to Shymkent, Taldykorgan, and Karaganda.