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https://johnpilger.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/thalidomide.jpg960720Why are 98 of the affected families not allowed compensation? “The thalidomide affair is not over. Last year, after 11 years of struggle, the children won their compensation. But there are still 98 children whose mothers believe they took thalidomide who’ve got nothing.” Allied to a four-year Daily Mirror campaign by John Pilger that […]