# Prosecutor General publishes names of 238 dead after January unrest

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 16 August 2022 Kazakhstan’s Prosecutor General published names of 238 people who died in the January unrest, 19 of them law-enforcement. Circumstances (lethal force, deaths in custody) are contested. This page does not invent a higher or lower total and does not dress 238 as UCDP.

## Context

He ordered the January operation. The Prosecutor General tabulated. Human-rights groups contest circumstances.

Shoot-to-kill 7 January; 238 list 16 August 2022. Keep Prosecutor General publishes names of 238 dead after January unrest on 2022-08-16 separate from neighbouring succession, CSTO, shoot-to-kill, 238-list, and snap-election instruments.

The president of Kazakhstan is head of state and commander-in-chief. He can declare an emergency, invite a CSTO contingent, and order lethal force. He does not write ODIHR final reports, does not sit as a UNGA teller, and a Prosecutor-General list is not converted here into a unique UCDP integer.

## Evidence and sources

Prosecutor General of Kazakhstan carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [civic space](/drivers/civic-space): a completed official death list after a lethal emergency. 238 is sourced to the Prosecutor General, not invented as Contribution.size.

## What is established and what is not

Established: The Prosecutor General published a list of 238 dead on 16 August 2022, independently reported.

Not established: An agreed independent body-count, or that every death was a same-day shooting under the 7 January order.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The Prosecutor General listed names. This page does not invent a UCDP integer.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Prosecutor General publishes names of 238 dead after January unrest, not a later speech about Prosecutor General publishes names of 238 dead after January unrest.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Prosecutor General publishes names of 238 dead after January unrest on 2022-08-16 is not a licence to treat every later Prosecutor General of Kazakhstan communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Prosecutor General publishes names of 238 dead after January unrest into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He ordered the January operation. The Prosecutor General listed names. This page does not invent a UCDP integer. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Kassym-Jomart Tokayev: https://factrail.ai/people/kassym-jomart-tokayev

## Drivers

- Civic Space: https://factrail.ai/drivers/civic-space

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/kazakhstan-says-238-people-killed-during-january-unrest-2022-08-16/
- https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/prokuror

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/kz-238-list-2022