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Lydia Emmanouilidou

After Greece's worst train crash, young Greeks rally for change ahead of elections

High school classmates march in Athens, Greece, during a general strike in March, following a train collision that left 57 people dead, many of them young people. The students chanted, "The young generation will not forgive you." (Lydia Emmanouilidou for NPR)

ATHENS, Greece — High school junior Stella Dourou would typically be in class on a weekday. But on a recent Thursday morning, Dourou marched through downtown Athens, alongside her classmates and tens of thousands demonstrating in the Greek capital.

"We're protesting for all the lives lost for no reason," said Dourou, who knew one of the 57 people killed in last month's train collision, the deadliest in Greece's history.

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