Kazakh guard killed 15, burned border post
International Desk
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DHAKA: A Kazakh border guard has confessed to killing 14 fellow soldiers and a herder in cold blood at a remote post near the Chinese frontier, prosecutors said on Thursday, adding that hazing, or severe bullying, may have prompted the massacre.
The grisly killings last week, at a high-altitude border post in southeastern Kazakhstan, shocked the Central Asian nation. President Nursultan Nazarbayev called the crime a ‘terrorist act’ and told security chiefs to spare no effort in their investigation.
After the killings were reported, border guard Vladislav Chelakh was found on June 4 at a herders’ winter camp, said Nurdaulet Suindikov, spokesman for the prosecutor-general’s office.
‘On that day, interrogated in the presence of a defense lawyer, Chelakh confessed to killing his fellow servicemen and (herder) Ruslan Kim’, Suindikov told a news briefing, reports The Jakarta Post.
BDST: 2002 HRS, JUN 7, 2012
Edited by Robab Rosan, Cultural Affairs Editor