Exiled Kazakh Leader Denounces World Community

Speaking before a rare plenary session of the European Parliament, Kazakh resistance leader Olzhas Ismailov angrily accused the world community of deliberate inaction in the face of human-rights violations in his homeland.

"For decades, the Zarubayev regime has treated the Muslim population of Kazakhstan as slaves," said Ismailov. "Indeed, as worse than slaves, for a slave has hope of liberation. We have long since given up hope."

Ismailov recited a litany of abuses attributed to the government of Sergey Zarubayev, the dictator who has held power in Kazakhstan since 2024, and been nicknamed Stalinashka by his opponents. "Even among the regime's Russian-descended elite, there is no hope of privacy, one's every word or action is monitored," said Ismailov. "Bioroid soldiers, ugly parodies of human life grown in vats, patrol the streets night and day. Death comes to any who speak out against the regime, or at Stalinashka's whim. Even in death there is no escape. Corpses of the victims, robbed of their living brains and run by puppet implants, return to us as Stalinashka's hidden pawns."

The European Parliament is scheduled to open debate later this week on a resolution condemning "crimes against humanity " in Kazakhstan, and to pass a new package of economic sanctions against Zarubayev government. Ismailov dismissed these moves, claiming that they have had little or no effect on the regime, which continues to trade with neighboring Russia. Instead, he called for military action to "liberate" his home country.

- filed by Jon F. Zeigler

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