Kazakhstan's opposition leader Altynbek Sarsenbaiuly was found shot dead today. He is the second major Kazakh opposition leader to be shot dead since November.
The other, Zamanbek Nurkadilov, was shot three times, with wounds in his chest and head. Police say he committed suicide.
I'm wondering how a man can commit suicide by shooting himself in the chest and head three times. That seems a bit excessive. Plus, he's not shooting at a moving target, presumably. It would be hard to miss himself. After he shot himself in the head the first time, and realized he wasn’t dead, he must’ve been pretty embarrassed. “I can’t do anything right!” he thought, “Except become mayor of Almaty and rise to the status of a powerful voice for reform in my country. Man, I suck!”
Both of these slain leaders were former allies of President Nursultan Nazarbayev and then switched to the opposition because of his government's corruption. Maybe, in Kazakhstan, suicide means getting shot three times in the head and chest by political opponents. It’s just a difference of definition, not a massive government cover-up.
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