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*** 22-May-16 World View -- Afghan Taliban leader reportedly killed by US drone strike in Pakistan

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  • Kazakhstan farmers riot over fears of encroachment from China
  • Afghan Taliban leader reportedly killed by US drone strike in Pakistan

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**** Kazakhstan farmers riot over fears of encroachment from China
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Riot police confront protesters on Saturday in Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city (Reuters)

Authorities in Kazakhstan reacted harshly to protests announced for
Saturday by detaining possibly hundreds of journalists, activists and
demonstrators. Police in full riot gear broke up the protests on
Saturday, and dozens more were arrested in cities across the country.

They're protesting against a planned "Land Reform" program. The
program would make it easier for foreigners to buy farmland or rent it
for 25 years. Protesters fear that the changes would make it easier
for large Chinese agribusinesses to take control of vast swaths of
farmland. According to one protester, "We can't give land to the
Chinese. If they come then they won't leave!" China shares a lengthy
border with Kazakhstan and has been heavily investing in its energy
sector and infrastructure.

The new law was approved in November, but only comes into effect on
July 1. In the last round of protests, on April 27, there were one or
two thousand people in each city, which is quite serious for
Kazakhstan where no dissent is tolerated. Authorities fear a repeat
of the huge protests in 2011, when oil workers went on strike, and 14
people were killed by police gunfire.

Kazakhstan is heavily dependent on oil exports and because of the drop
in oil prices, its revenues plummeted creating budget deficit. The
government had to decrease its expenditure, and the national currency
lost half of its value, although it's slowly recovering now as oil
prices are going up.

The collapse in global commodity prices, especially oil, drove Russia
into recession, and has had s big ripple effect throughout central
Asia, whose economies are dependent on Russia through subsidies and
migrant labor. Kazakhstan's currency, the tenge, has lost 50% of its
value against the US dollar, and other currencies in the region have
suffered similarly.

Although the proposed Land Reform law triggered the riots and
protests, the downward spiraling economy has turned it into general
protests again Kazakhstan's president Nursultan Nazarbayev, who was
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan in the last few
years of the Soviet Empire, and then became president in 1991 when the
Soviet Empire collapsed.

On May 5, Nazarbayev announced that the Land Reform would be put on
hold, until the new laws could be discussed publicly. That was a huge
concession to the activists, and perhaps was as much a sign of panic
as anything else, but it didn't stop the protests from happening
anyway on Saturday. EurasiaNet and Press TV (Tehran) and BBC (28-Apr) and
Jamestown

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**** Afghan Taliban leader reportedly killed by US drone strike in Pakistan
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According to the Pentagon, a US drone strike into Pakistan's
Balochistan province, has "likely" killed Mullah Akhtar Mohammad
Mansour.

Mansour's rise to power came about in a bizarre way. His predecessor
was Mullah Omar, who was the nominal leader of Afghan Taliban until
his death was announced in July of last year. But when his death was
announced, the announcement said that he had died in April 2013. In
other words, for over two years of being leader of the Taliban, he was
dead.

At that point, Mansour rose to leadership, but he has not been
accepted as leader by all factions, with the result of extremely
bitter political infighting within the Taliban.

Nonetheless, in recent months the Taliban has been expanding
operations in Afghanistan's south, and has captured several key
districts, leading many to believe that President Obama will be forced
to leave a large military contingent in Afghanistan at the end of his
term.

Mansour's whereabouts are a closely guarded secret, so if Mansour has
indeed been killed by an American drone strike, it would have to have
been done with intelligence from sources within the Taliban itself.
Confirmation of Mansour's death would have to come from announcement
by the Taliban.

The death of Mansour, if confirmed, will not mean the end of the
Taliban, just as the death of Osama bin Laden did not prevent
continuing operations by al-Qaeda and did not prevent the rise of the
so-called Islamic State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh). One possible
scenario is that his death would worsen the political infighting in
the Taliban. Another possible scenario is that an even more hardline
leader will be chose, someone who will unite all the Taliban factions
and end the infighting. AP and Foreign Policy


KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Kazakhstan, Russia, Nursultan Nazarbayev,
Afghanistan, Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, Mullah Omar,
Pakistan, Balochistan

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