The Massacre Everyone Ignored: Chevron, Kazakhstan and a US-Backed Dictator‘Last Friday in Kazakhstan, riot police slaughtered up 70 striking oil workers, wounding somewhere between 500 and 800, and arresting scores. Almost as soon as the massacre went down in the western regional city of Zhanaozen, the Kazakh authorities cut off access to twitter and cell phone coverageÐeffectively cutting the region off from the rest of the world, relegating the massacre into the small news wire print.’