{"id":88618,"date":"2024-07-05T20:57:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T20:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/05\/kazakh-journalists-killing-sends-chill-through-exiles-in-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T20:57:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T20:57:07","slug":"kazakh-journalists-killing-sends-chill-through-exiles-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/05\/kazakh-journalists-killing-sends-chill-through-exiles-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakh Journalist\u2019s Killing Sends Chill Through Exiles in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/07\/05\/multimedia\/05ukraine-funeral-01-phvw\/05ukraine-funeral-01-phvw-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Kazakh Journalist\u2019s Killing Sends Chill Through Exiles in Ukraine\" title=\"Kazakh Journalist\u2019s Killing Sends Chill Through Exiles in Ukraine\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A small crowd of mourners gathered on Friday for the funeral of the Kazakh opposition activist and YouTuber Aidos Sadykov, who was assassinated in Kyiv, Ukraine \u2014 a killing that colleagues said had cast a chill over journalists and exiles in Ukraine and the wider region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A former opposition politician and trade unionist, Mr. Sadykov, 55, lived in Ukraine after fleeing Kazakhstan, his homeland, with his family 10 years ago. He was granted political asylum in Ukraine and, with his wife, ran a widely followed YouTube Channel covering events in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He was shot last month outside their home, and died of his injuries earlier this week. Natalia Sadykova, his widow and a journalist, has laid the blame for her husband\u2019s death on President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAidos gave his life for Kazakhstan. He died a martyr\u2019s death at the hands of killers,\u201d she <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sadykovanatalya\/posts\/pfbid02WsnPgH7HgQdk46SAmY9T7MRym3G4ogYCNzT5ArxNWcuWXoaVKJUsbpDDhhJt9Hc6l\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on her Facebook page<\/a>, announcing his death. \u201cFor 13 days, Aidos fought for his life in the I.C.U., but there was no miracle. His death is on Tokayev\u2019s conscience.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The president of Kazakhstan has not addressed Ms. Sadykova\u2019s accusations directly. He <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/vlast.kz\/novosti\/60642-kazahstan-gotov-podklucitsa-k-rassledovaniu-pokusenia-na-ajdosa-sadykova-tokaev.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> soon after the shooting that he had ordered his officials to learn details of the incident and if necessary would offered Ukraine assistance in its investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Ukrainian prosecutor general has named two citizens of Kazakhstan as suspects in the shooting, and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gp.gov.ua\/ua\/posts\/v-skojenni-zamaxu-na-vbivstvo-kazaxskogo-zurnalista-pidozryuyutsya-dvoje-gromadyan-kazaxstanu-yix-ogoloseno-v-miznarodnii-rozsuk\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> that the case was a murder investigation. The two individuals escaped the country via neighboring Moldova, according to the prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One of the suspects turned himself in on his return to Kazakhstan and was being questioned, according to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.kz\/memleket\/entities\/prokuror\/press\/news\/details\/797192?lang=ru\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a statement<\/a> from the Kazakhstan prosecutor\u2019s office. The second man remains at large.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Saydkova was beside her husband in their car on June 18 as they drove into the courtyard of their home. In an interview, she said she saw a man holding a pistol with a silencer open fire at the car. He shot her husband in the head through the windshield, she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Sadykov was taken to a hospital and survived in a coma for two weeks before succumbing to his wounds. He leaves behind his wife and three children, ages 13, 12 and 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When they lived in Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia, both Mr. Sadykov and Ms. Sadykova were the targets of prosecutions that they said were politically motivated. He spent two years in prison, and she faced the prospect of imprisonment when they fled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Sadykov was an outspoken critic of the Kazakh government and had long been active in organizing strikes and protests, in particular among oil workers. His YouTube channel, named Base (pronounced Ba-zay), has more than one million subscribers and was a source of irritation for the government, friends at the funeral said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many followers inside Kazakhstan would send in videos of protests and police brutality, which the channel would post, undermining the official accounts of events, said Vladimir Kozlov, a former political prisoner in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Refat Chubarov, the leader of the Crimean Tatar movement in Ukraine, spoke at the funeral in a Muslim community center in a suburb southwest of Kyiv, and suggested the real culprit was President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Crimean Tatars suffered centuries of oppression under Moscow\u2019s rule, and most were forcibly resettled to Central Asia in the 1940s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAidos was killed by those who don&#8217;t want a free and independent Kazakhstan,\u201d he said, standing beside Mr. Sadykov\u2019s body, which was laid on a wooden bier and covered with a cloth of green and gold, \u201cHe was killed in our country. It can only have been done by those who want to destroy all of us. I don\u2019t know who did this, but it is clear it is coming from the enemy of us all, from one center, Moscow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The assassination was a message to all Kazakhs, Ukrainians, Crimean Tatars and the wider community, he said. \u201cEveryone who thinks this war will not touch them, they should think again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">International journalists\u2019 organizations have deplored the killing and called for a full investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cJournalists must be free to operate without fear of retribution, and Aidos\u2019 killing while in asylum is deeply suspicious,\u201d Anthony Bellanger, general secretary of the International Federation of Journalists, said in a statement. \u201cThose responsible must be held to account.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/05\/world\/europe\/journalist-sadykov-assassination-ukraine.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small crowd of mourners gathered on Friday for the funeral of the Kazakh opposition activist and YouTuber Aidos Sadykov, who was assassinated in Kyiv, Ukraine \u2014 a killing that colleagues said had cast a chill over journalists and exiles in Ukraine and the wider region. 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