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In September 1955, as Cyprus was being discussed at a three-power conference in London, the Turkish secret police planted a bomb at the house where Kemal Ataturk was born in Salonica. At the signal of this ‘Greek provocation’, mobs swarmed through Istanbul looting Greek businesses, burning Orthodox churches, and attacking Greek residents. Although no one in official circles in London doubted that the pogrom was unleashed by the Turkish government, Macmillan – in charge of the talks – pointedly did not complain.

— Perry Anderson

The Divisions of Cyprus

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...in addition to the much trumpeted $100 million Billg has donated to India's fight against HIV, he's funding the Microsoft jihad against Linux to the far more impressive tune of $421 million. That means that Linux is more than four times worse than AIDS to Billg and his happy Redmond family.

— Thomas C Greene

The Register

cancer in chechnya

Submitted by antarchi on October 21, 2007 - 11:31.

Chechnya is in the grip of what could be described as an epidemic of cancer... According to the republic’s one working cancer clinic, as many cases were recorded in the first five months of this year as in the whole of 2006. “Today we have 1712 patients, how can you explain that?” said Petimat Khamidova, the head of the clinic.
Khamidova, who has worked in this field for 30 years, said there had never been so many cancer patients before war broke out in Chechnya. “Most frequent are cases of lung cancer, breast cancer, cancer of thyroid gland, skin cancer, gynaecological disorders,” she said. “We used to have very few cases of lung cancer here.”
According to data on lung cancer from the whole of the North Caucasus for 2004, the incidence in Chechnya is more than five times higher than that of other republics.

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