19 авг 1916 г. - Botpaev uprising

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The second incident occurred in the Botpaev (Botpaevskaia) volost’ of the Vernyi district three days later, on 6 August. The trigger in this case was the machinations of the native volost’ head, who used the occasion to include only the Kazakhs of the rival party in the lists.57 As Tomohiko Uyama notes in his paper in this volume, the absence of metrical books in Turkestan gave native administrators the opportunity to manipulate the lists of recruits. Seeking justice, the aggrieved party approached the District Police Captain Gilev. Gilev, however, sided with the volost’ head who claimed that the rival group was plotting to revolt. To put down the disturbances, Gilev led a group of twenty policemen against the rival party in the area of the Samsy station. The arrival of armed men in the volost’ alarmed its native population, which gathered in a large crowd. What happened next mirrors the earlier events of the Kyzylboruk incident. Angered by the presence of armed policemen, the agitated crowd of locals surrounded Gilev and his men forcing them first to retreat and then to fire into the crowd, killing twelve Kazakhs Collapsing p153

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