Oil Workers on Hunger Strike in Kazakhstan
25.03.2009
Fourteen workers at the private Burghylau oil company in the western Kazakh town of Zhanaozen have been on a hunger strike since March 20, RFE/RL reports.
Burghylau's trade unions chairman Daniyar Bespaev told RFE/RL that the hunger strikers' major demand is that the company be nationalized and merged with the state...