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142. A Deadly Uprising in Kazakhstan

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The Protests in Amaty Last Night

In 20 11, december 20 eleventh, there were there was a massacre in which state police opened fire on oil protesters who were striking. And the government shot down the internet. They claimed only a handful of people died, when the counts were really in the hundreds. So those protests spread between january third and fourth, an it was january fifth that things got violent. The story that i saw in the four hours that people in amaty last night had internet, was across the board, activists, wrights defenders, people who were working in human rights, all shared the same story. We need to show up in solidarity for genasin, but also drawing on these bigger

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