File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-03-31.182, message 5


Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 18:54:18 GMT
From: Chris Burford <cburford-AT-gn.apc.org>
Subject: M-I: 431 children rounded up


List subscribers will be glad to hear that
431 children have just been successfully rounded up
by Russian authorities in the city of Ekaterinburg,
home of Yeltsin.

Because of rising tuberculosis associated with the 
"social upheavals" following the "collapse of communism"
(BBC), three times a year the authorities collect
the children from rubbish dumps, waste ground etc.

Among the latest batch of children, mostly orphans
there were various illnesses including sores and
sexually transmitted diseases.

Chris Burford



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