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Samitra Soren (background, in white) has had 3 children
who each died after a few days. Her mother holds her only surviving
child. |
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Malka Ho worked for 20 years at the UCIL mine
and has TB. His only daughter died aged 15 days. He comments
that nobody recovers from TB around the mine, elsewhere the medicine
works, but not here. |
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Ajun Karmakr with his son Ghandhar. Ajun works as
a casual worker on the tailing ponds his 9 year old son was born
mentally and physically handicapped. |
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Ajun Karmakr with his son Ghandhar. Ajun works as
a casual worker on the tailing ponds his 9 year old son was born
mentally and physically handicapped. |
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Ledrhra Soren worked for 8 years on the tailing ponds
and loading uranium ore onto trucks and know suffers from skin disease
and TB. His brother, who also worked for UCIL, suffers
from the same illness. |
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Ledrhra Soren's chest x-ray. He worked for 8 years
on the tailing ponds and loading uranium ore onto trucks and know
suffers from skin disease and TB. His brother, who also worked for
UCIL, suffers from the same illness. |
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Ledrhra Soren worked for 8 years on the tailing ponds
and loading uranium ore onto trucks and know suffers from skin disease
and TB. His brother, who also worked for UCIL, suffers from the
same illness. |
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One of the radio active tailing ponds positioned
100m from a Santhal village. Water containing fine mining waste
is pumped into the pond, during the dry season wind spreads radioactive
dust around the surrounding villages. |
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Harabiralee with his wife Tulsikai. Harabiralee is
95 years old and has 8 children, the youngest of which is 6 years
old. None of his family has ever worked at the mine and he says
that consequently they are poor but happy. |
