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EPISODE · Sep 27, 2025 · 12 MIN

The Village of Widows - How 52 Men Died for Copper"

from Red Earth: Cyprus Murder Files - True Crime · host Red Earth

In 1923, British mining giant Cyprus Mines Corporation began extracting copper from the mountains of Cyprus. By the 1970s, they had extracted something else: the lives of 52 men from the small village of Platanistasa.This wasn't an accident. This was murder.In our explosive first episode, we investigate how a major international corporation systematically killed workers through deliberate negligence, turning an entire community into widows and orphans. The company knew the copper dust was lethal. They had safety equipment available. They chose profit over human life.

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