"Adyrna" correspondent wrote that the strikers in Zhetybay village of Mangistau region had been on hunger strike for the fourth day . Azattyk announced this.
Villagers went on hunger strike due to unemployment. Their only demand is that "Mangistaumunaygaz" company open up job vacancies for them in the oil field. The strikers even blocked the road to the mine.
"If you want to buy something for your child, you don't have enough money, even five thousands tenge. what do you do? Here you walk among the people. You wake up at night. You miss your child, you can't do anything. "You can't do anything," one of the protesting citizens told to the reporter of Radio Liberty.
Mothers with many children, who are unable to provide even a single piece of bread for their small children, ask the authorities to find them a job.
