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World Service,21 Jun 1996,42 mins

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From the First World War to the killing fields of Cambodia, humanity and killing in the 20th Century. "Genocide... holocaust, these are our centuries unlovely calling cards. The bloody milestones along which the century has marched are too frequent and too numerous to ignore." John Tusa.

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