Janvier 2007 / The Scotsman

Places of Pain and Suffering in East Kazakhstan after many nuclear tests

The Scotsman Wed 24 Jan 2007

A nuclear legacy of shame - and voices that won’t fall silent

STRUAN STEVENSON

KIZAT Kuzembayev stands proudly to attention as we enter his tiny cancer ward in the hospital in Semipalatinsk. Medals are pinned to his dressing gown indicating his status as an important war hero. He is 79 years old and suffering from terminal stomach cancer. In 1953, he was one of 42 healthy young men selected by the Soviet military regime as human guinea pigs. The small (...)