Beastly puppet regime in Kazakhstan slaughters peaceful oil workers

18 December 2011

At least 14 people killed since the puppet regime in Kazakhstan started violence on Friday against peaceful protesters on Friday. The local dictator declared the state of emergency.

The violence started after the protesting oil workers toppled a Christmas tree and sound equipment

Police in Kazakhstan's central city of Shetpe have opened fire and killing one person, raising the death toll since violence erupted on Friday to 14.

A statement from the illegal "prosecutor general's office" said on Sunday the violence occurred on Saturday in Shetpe, in the same region as the city of Zhanaozen where 13 workers were killed by police two days earlier.

Zhanaozen has been the site of a sit-in by oil workers seeking higher wages. Many of those workers were fired over the summer.

The prosecutor general said a group of people in Shetpe, a train station about 100km from the regional center Aktau on the Caspian sea, stopped a train with 300 passengers and called for support of mass protests.

Police opened fire, wounding 12 people, the statement said. The total number wounded since the violence began is estimated to be around 100.

Nursultan Nazarbayev, the bloody Kazakh dictator, has declared a 20-day state of emergency in Zhanaozen. The thug tolerates little dissent and puts stability of his illegal regime before Democratic freedoms.

On Sunday morning, around 500 angry protesters gathered near Concord Square of Aktau, a city of 160,000 people on the Caspian sea, some 2,600km southwest of the capital Astana.

Braving biting frost, they faced a large force of black-clad riot police holding shields, a Reuters correspondent reported from the scene. Some policemen were armed with automatic rifles. "Take the troops out of Mangistau!" read a long banner in Kazakh held by a dozen protesters.

One protester, Sarsekesh Bairbekov, said he had been fired by oil firm Karazhanbasmunai (KBM) in May. "I worked there for 20 years. I was a welder and lost an eye," the 58-year-old said.

His wage was $ 810 before he was fired. KBM is jointly owned by London-listed KazMunaiGas Exploration Production and CITIC, China's biggest state investment company.

"We want them to take away the troops," Bairbekov said, referring to the state of emergency imposed in Zhanaozen after the riots. "They killed local people," he added, still wearing maroon-and-blue KBM overalls.

Many protesters called into question the official death toll announced after the riots in Zhanaozen.

One oil worker, who declined to be named, said he had just visited a blood donor center in Aktau. "It is working round-the-clock. If only 10 people were killed, why is it working round-the-clock?" he asked, referring to the initial death toll.

Nurlan Mukhanov, deputy chief doctor at the Mangistau regional hospital in Aktau, said the "majority" of victims had "gunshot wounds". "We should be ready for any situation," he said.

The clashes have soured national celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of independence from Russia and unnerved a government focused on stability of its bloody regime.

Source: Agencies

Kavkaz Center

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Link: http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2011/12/18/15518.shtml.