CASE 1.3: RADIATION VILLAGE: THE PEOPLE OF NUCLEAR TEST FALLOUT
Due to problems of radiation caused by nuclear tests conducted during Pokhran 1 & 2, the resident of Khetolai, a near by village, had filed a petition with the State Human Rights Commission. A committee of experts has been appointed to investigate these issues. Vishwa Mohan Sharma, the DC, had sought help from the Director of Jodhpur Medical College to carry out a study of entire area.
Khertolai is a small village about 25kms from Pokhran Qasba on the Jaisalmer-Bikaner highway. It is the nearest village from Pokhran firing range of the Indian Army where 5 nuclear tests were carried out. The recent ones have been carried out in the month of May1998. The village is now facing the brunt of these nuclear tests with a lot cancer cases surfacing in the village, even among the cattle. To raise their concern, villagers filed a petition about the increasing number of cancer cases and psychiatric disorders. Due to the disease spreading among cattle, there are concerns about the production of milk and the village is also witnessing a dramatic decline in the livestock.
Timeline of key events
Date Key Event
May 1998 India performs secret nuclear tests at the Pokhran site in Rajasthan
14 May, 2005 Rajasthan member of the Human Rights Commission Dr. Devarajan M ordered the collectors and said that the government needs to take immediate action
June 2015 Collector, Vishwa Mohan Sharma has said that experts have studied the
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Personal Statement
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Ravi Lamba
Professor Oropeza
ENG 110
19th October 2015
Economics of Food Justice
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In a survey of living conditions in one such village (these villages numbered well over a thousand in inhospitable Siberia), Bushuyka, the starting population was 3,306 inhabitants. Among them, 1,415 were children under 14 years old (of which 184 children up to 5 years). All the fragile children had died within 8 months giving a death rate of over 40%. In the village, the so-called children's home in which they were forced to live, isolated from their parents, were just wooden barracks with double bunks".
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Khaled Hosseini, wrote his book about the events ouccring in his home and provinces. The drastic images the author portrays in his novel is very surprising because the children in the time were very young; at the time their home had a horrible case of young males sexually abused. This situation is diffrent from the cases in India where
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South Africa is known around the world for being one of the most diverse marine environment in the world, with 83% of the known fish families residing in South Africa (Van der Elst, 2007). There are also many marine species that are endemic to South Africa, which means they are only found in South Africa. Almost 30% of the South African population lives on the coastline (Taljaard et al. 2006), which has led to the urbanization of the coastlines and which then led to the industrialization of these areas.
Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan recounts the event of the Partition of India, which happened in 1947. Set in a fictional village of Mano Majra, the novel aims to depict the cultural and political clash between the Sikhs, Hindus, and Muslims and, by following the development of the characters, unveil the moral of humanity. Throughout the novel, Singh portrays the experience of conflict that each character, including Juggut Singh, Iqbal Singh, and Hukum Chand, has to deal with. Based on the characters’ development, Singh’s goal is to present the idea that love always conquers the power of violence and ethnic antagonism.
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