Information on the treatment of ethnic groups by the authorities and ethnic Kazakhs, 1991-1995 [KKT22882.E]

For information on the situation of Jews, please consult Responses to Information Requests KKT13405 of 3 March 1993, KKT16692.E of 3 March 1994, KKT20455.E of 28 April 1995, KKT21727.F of 7 September 1995, and KKT22320.F of 21 November 1995. For information on the situation of Russians, please consult Responses to Information Requests KKT10448 of 18 March 1992, KKT11301 of 24 August 1992, and KKT21233.F of 20 July 1995. For information on Koreans and other minorities, please consult Responses to Information Requests SUN10062 of 10 January 1992 and KKT15409.FE of 30 September 1993. For information on the Tatars and other minorities, please consult Responses to Information Requests KKT22174.E of 6 November 1995 and KKT22883.E of 15 January 1996.

For additional information on the situation of Cossacks and Russians, please consult the following attachments: Rossiyskaya Gazeta of 2 June 1995 and 30 June 1995, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda of 15 November 1995, Itar-Tass of 1 December 1995, Rossiya of 19-25 April 1995, and Interfax of 19 November 1995.

For information on the situation of ethnic Poles, please consult the Polish Press Agency attachment of 13 May 1994. For information on the situation of ethnic Czechs, please consult the Czechoslovak Press Agency attachment of 8 December 1994. For information on the situation of Chechens in 1992, please consult the Human Rights Watch World Report 1993 attachment.

For additional information on the situation of ethnic minorities in Kazakhstan, please consult page 939 of Country Reports for 1993, and page 862 of Country Reports for 1994, which are available at Regional Documentation Centres.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.

Attachments


Czechoslovak Press Agency [Prague, in English]. 5 December 1994. "Ethnic Czechs in Kazakhstan Voice Fear of Persecution." (BBC Summary 8 Dec. 1994/NEXIS)

Human Rights Watch (HRW). 1992. Human Rights Watch World Report 1993. New York: Human Rights Watch, p. 236.

Interfax [Moscow, in English]. 19 November 1995. "Relations with Former Soviet States; Duma Voices Concern over Human Rights in Kazakhstan." (BBC Summary 19 Nov. 1995/NEXIS)

Itar-Tass World Service [Moscow, in English]. 1 December 1995. "Relations with Former Soviet States; Tyumen Cossacks Protest over Imprisonment of Kazakh Cossack Leader." (BBC Summary 1 Dec. 1995/NEXIS)

Kazakhstanskaya Pravda [Almaty, in Russian]. 15 November 1995. "Paper Deplores Maltreatment of Cossacks." (FBIS-SOV-95-223 20 Nov. 1995, p. 66)

Polish Press Agency [Warsaw, in Polish]. 13 May 1994. "Most Ethnic Poles in Kazakhstan Are Ready to Leave for Poland." (BBC Summary 18 May 1994/NEXIS)

Rossiya [Moscow, in Russian]. 19-25 April 1995. Anatoliy Vorontsov. "Oppression of Russians Termed 'Genocide'." (FBIS-SOV-95-084 2 May 1995, pp. 36-38)

Rossiyskaya Gazeta [Moscow, in Russian]. 30 June 1995. Lyudmila Masnaya. "'Domestic Nationalism' Driving Russians Out." (FBIS-SOV-95-130 7 July 1995, pp. 54-55)

_____. 2 June 1995. "Duma Criticizes 'Persecution' of Russians in Kazakhstan." (FBIS-SOV-95-107 5 June 1995, p. 20)