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“We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of the savage principle of the survival of the fittest.”

South African president Thabo Mbeki opening the World Summit in Johannesburg (26 August)

“The evidence shows that the Japanese troops used bacteriological weapons.”

Judge Koji Iwata of the Tokyo District Court admits germ warfare killed many in China – but ruled that the survivors had no right to compensation (Japan Today, 27 August)

“It would be possible to carry your own child in the same womb, donated by [your] mother, as you developed in.”

Mats Brännström…

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