The Broken Empire - Pollution

 

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	RealAudio: "The true victims are the children..."   Semey, Kazakhstan. 1993 - Blind and disfigured from birth, 13-year-old Berik Sysdykov lives downwind of the old Semipalatinsk test site in northeastern Kazakhstan, where inhabitants attribute a plague of birth defects to nuclear fallout. Between 1949 and 1989 nearly 500 nuclear devices were detonated here.

   

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