80th Anniversary of the Fire of Smyrna:

On September 9, 1922 Mustafa Kemal's army set fire to Smyrna. In the
days and weeks that followed, over 100,000 Greeks and Armenians were
killed and 2 million Greeks were expelled from Asia Minor, where their
ancestors had lived for three thousand years. During this ethnic
cleansing the western powers either did nothing or else abetted the
atrocities, acting in the interests not of the victims, but of oil
companies.

On Monday night, September 9, 2002, and continuing each Monday night
through the end of September, Realistic Utopia presents an interview
with Professor Marjorie Housepian Dobkin, whose Pulitzer Prize-
nominated book "Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City" remains the
definitive account of this dark episode in 20th century history.
Accompanying her story is 80 year old newsreel footage of the fire
itself, and of the refugees fleeing the burning city, setting out into
Smyrna harbor in frail rowboats.

Realistic Utopia is on Monday nights at midnight (eastern time; 4:00 AM
GMT), on the internet at www.mnn.org, and on Manhattan cable TV channel
34 (Time Warner) or channel 107 (RCN).