Zhanaozen: The Unknown Tragedy

Gabriel Levy from People and Nature with detail about a new online film.


Police advancing on demonstrators, Zhanaozen, 16 December 2011
Police advancing on demonstrators, Zhanaozen, 16 December 2011
 
To commemorate the third anniversary of the Zhanaozen killings of 16 December 2011 – when Kazakh police opened fire on oil workers and their supporters, killing at least 16 and wounding 60 – the film Zhanaozen: the unknown tragedy (directed by Yulia Mazurova) has today been put on line.

English language version here.
Original version in Russian here.

The 30-minute documentary includes film of the police attack that the authorities wanted to hide, interviews with oil workers whose strike was ended by the massacre and scenes from the court in which activists were jailed. The film makers have asked supporters to distribute the link widely. Denis Bilunov, who worked on the film, said:

Thank you for the efforts you have made before. Since March 2013 screenings with public discussions took place in important venues: Helsinki, Berlin, Moscow, Warsaw, Kiev, Brussels, London, Geneva and Milan.


For more on Zhanaozen and the Kazakh oil workers, see here.

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