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'We Have Been Poisoned': Kazakhstan's Oil Boom Led To The End Of A Local Community


'We Have Been Poisoned': Kazakhstan's Oil Boom Led To The End Of A Local Community
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The processing of rich oil fields in Kazakhstan has produced a windfall that was hoped to benefit millions of lives in the poverty-stricken country. Instead, a handful have become wildly rich and powerful while villagers near extraction plants are getting sick, blaming toxic pollution. RFE/RL has teamed with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and a host of other media to report on the human cost of Kazakhstan's booming oil industry.

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