JARA - Radioactive Patriarchy: Women of Qazaqstan

an independent documentary about women from nuclear-affected region in Kazakhstan

Amidst the vast steppes and boundless horizon, Kazakh land bears the scars of devastation and man-made catastrophe. JARA - Radioactive Patriarchy: Women of Qazaqstan is an independent documentary that unearths the tragic legacy of environmental destruction and human suffering caused by 40 years of nuclear testing on Kazakh land. The word jara means "a wound" in the Kazakh language. Nuclear wounds have spread across millions of things - humans, animals, insects, water, air, and soil. Ionizing radiation has cursed millions of people across past, present, and future generations. Some…

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