milly from south africa on the oil industry

I live in South Africa, near the oil refinery. This place is polluted with all kinds of rubbish. And my parents and most of the people living in this area died of cancer, asthma and wheezing. What about the little children? We are suffering on this Earth. We are not living a happy life. We are living in a caged up area whereas we're supposed to be living free. We are humans, we are not animals. My brother just died of tumours last year. He just moved here and then he got the tumour and he just died. And the doctors could not find the fault. Only after he died did they find the fault that he had a tumour. We want to live a free life and a fair life. We just want to live a normal life. And we want to give our future generations a pure life.

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