70 Dead & 500 wounded by riot police in Kazakhstan


See: http://www.socialistworld.net/index.php/5489

Kazakhstan oil workers and their supporters had today planned a peaceful demonstration in Zhanaozen. The authorities, however, afraid of a powerful show of support for the strikers have decided to use internal troops against them and are resorting to bloodshed. Local hospitals are not able to cope with the scale of death and injury.

Please send immediate protests to the Kazakhstan Embassy in London: [email protected]
and to the Kazakhstan Foreign Ministry: [email protected]
and messages of support to:
[email protected]
with copies to [email protected]