View Struan Stevenson's acceptance speech:
Struan Stevenson is a Member of European
Parliament (MEP) – a Conservative Member for Scotland-
and a well known political activist and campaigner of many
years standing. Struan knocked Labour into third place
in
the North East Scotland European by-election in November
1998 and then went on to top the Tory Euro Candidates List,
winning
one of the eight Scottish seats in the European Parliament
in the June 1999 Euro elections.
Struan is a well-known broadcaster and
author of frequent feature articles in the national press.
Struan is married to Pat, a Senior Producer
with BBC Radio and has two sons - Ryan, who graduated in politics
from Newcastle University and works for NewsBase.com in Edinburgh
and Gregor, who is studying English and Film Studies at Glasgow
University.
Crying Forever is Struan Stevenson's
moving account of the people he met in Semipalatinsk in 2003-
people the Western world would largely have forgotten- the
true victims of the Cold War - in the area of East Kazakhstan
where the Soviets carried out over 600 nuclear tests between
1949 and 1990, using the half million local population as
human guinea pigs. Stevenson's essay explores the daily life
of these communities, their suffering, pain and sense of hopelessness
as they struggle to survive in a polluted environment.
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