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Cancer Fears Stalk Kosovo's Coal Heartland

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Jovan Zivic, whose cafe sits on the road to one of the power plants, lost his teenage son to the disease in 2010, and then his wife 14 years later. Many of his customers have similar stories. "There is no family that has not been affected," Zivic told AFP, as he watched a plume rise from a plant chimney in the nearby settlement of Plemetina. The town, just a short drive from the capital, Pristina, produces almost all of the country's electricity…

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Between two coal-fired power stations, the inhabitants of Obilic speak only of diseases. Jovan Zivic's son died in 2010, his wife fourteen years more... Read article Obilic, the city of Kosovo where cancer has marked every family appeared first on Le Singulier.

Jovan Zivic's teenage son, the owner of a modest café at the edge of a road leading to one of the power stations, was taken away by cancer in 2010. His wife died fourteen years later. And many of his clients tell stories of...

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