![]() Water treatment and access to sanitation (access to sewage) Gabès Phosphate Fertilizers Plants of the Tunisian Chemical Group, Tunisia Nevertheless, because of the social and economic importance of the complex, the political will to end the pollution seems very limited. These risks have been well known from the beginning of the project. Palm trees of the oasis are dying because of water pollution and shortages due to the overconsumption of the fertilizer plants. The air does not smell good because of acid smoke. While Gabès gulf is in the UNESCO World Heritage tentative list, pollution has degraded the landscape too. Even if no study has precisely estimated the health consequences, local protesters denounce the rising infertility, the increasingly common miscarriages, and the appearance of several diseases such as asthma, cancer, and hepatitis. Moreover, soil and air pollution impacts human health. First of all, the 12,000 tons of phosphogypsum drained into the gulf everyday cause damage to the marine fish biodiversity and the interdiction of bathing, because radiation levels are too high. The phosphate fertilizer plants in Gabès have deeply impacted the environment of the region. Civil protesters also organized Internet campaigns on Twitter and Facebook in order to inform the population and try to negotiate with the government. Nevertheless, in 2013, after the death of two children from diseases caused by radiation, protests began in order to demand the reduction of phosphate pollution in the Gabès District. This complex offers many jobs for this region, which suffers from a high unemployment rate. While it’s a cliché that the history of every family empire includes scenes of Shakespearian drama, rarely does a legit enterprise involving something as innocent as take out pita wraps engender the kind of violence that runs in three generations of this family of entrepreneurs who fled war on two continents, only to see their business erupt in a bloody climax.From 1972 onward, several phosphate fertilizer plants have been built in the industrial complex of Gabès, exploiting the resources of the Gafsa mines. You can listen to the second part as well, The Death of an American Dream. In 1980, they flee the civil war and three years later, Mardiros opens a new Zankou restaurant in Hollywood. In 1979, Mardiros gets hit by sixteen bullets but survives. While Rita’s parents forbid her to see him for years, they eventually marry. In fact, these stories will come to haunt them in unique ways, for generations.Īs a young man, Mardiros is accused of being an accomplice in a jewelry heist that went wrong but manages to convince the authorities he was innocent. One of his grandmothers always told vivid stories of the 1915 genocide, when they fled Armenia from the Turks, reminding the family: never forget. Mardiros parents started the Zankou restaurant. Brown, a veteran public radio journalist, travels back to Beirut, Lebanon in 1962. To understand what happened on that vital day, host David D. Because just a few hours after he gently kisses his wife goodbye, he will kill his sister, his mother and then himself. By the end of this day, the business they started forty years ago in Lebanon will be shattered – perhaps beyond repair. He looks anywhere but into his wife Rita's eyes and says he feels much better today and is going to meet a friend at a restaurant. It’s January 14th, 2003 and he is dieing from cancer. In this edition of Business Wars, you can listen to first part of the Zankou Chicken Murders, a fascinating story about an Armenian family of restaurant owners.Īt the beginning, we can hear that the 56-year-old founder Mardiros Iskenderian leaves his house in Los Angeles, for the first time in months.
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