<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhanaozen_massacre" id="mwATk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Zhanaozen massacre">Zhanaozen massacre</a>: Violent protests by oil workers take place in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhanaozen" id="mwATo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Zhanaozen">Zhanaozen</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan" id="mwATs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a>, leading to 16 people dead and 100 injured by the security forces.<sup about="#mwt95" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"}}' id="cite_ref-16" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_16#cite_note-16" id="mwATw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 16;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAT0">[16]</span></a></sup>
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