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Cost of nuclear test refugees from Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau

Hawaii demanding assistance from the federal government, ETN News, Aug 14, 2011, The cost of providing Hawaii government services to Pacific island migrants has more than tripled over the last eight years, according to a state report completed this week.

Retired cook Calvin Nelson says that when he came to Hawaii from Kwajalein, after the United States had seized his home for a new missile range, he was told, “everything will be covered.” Him and thousands of other Micronesian immigrants need the kidney dialysis that kept him alive.

State government expenses to pay for services to migrants from Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau rose to US$115 million last year from US$32 million in 2002, the report said……..

Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau are beneficiaries of the Compact of Free Association. After the US used the Pacific islands for nuclear weapons testing from 1946 to 1958, it agreed in the 1986 pact to provide financial assistance and migration rights in exchange for the right to use defense sites.

People from the areas included in the compact suffer from higher rates of cancer and kidney disease, which come with expensive treatments such as chemotherapy and dialysis.

The federal government provides the state with only US$11 million each year to help the state cover the costs of the US treaty….http://www.eturbonews.com/24598/hawaii-demanding-assistance-federal-government

August 15, 2011 - Posted by | politics, USA

2 Comments »

  1. It’s sad that people leave their home, way of life, their culture and history to please another countries desire to continue with nuclear testing. The devastating results it does to the people of their homeland and to all living creatures God made. God made man to take care the earth, animals and each other, not to destroy.
    God Bless all living and non living things

    lala's avatar Comment by lala | August 16, 2011 | Reply

  2. The nuclear testings were done in Marshall Islands, not in FSM, or Palau. Marshallese are the ones to be treated differently from the rest of Micronesia. You cannot classify Vanuatu with Solomon Islands, or Cook Islands with Tonga, same thing, cannot classify FSM with Marshall Islands. Stop this mis-classification. Cancers from Nuclear radiations are with Marshallese people; not people from FSM, or Palau.

    Johnny Mar's avatar Comment by Johnny Mar | March 1, 2012 | Reply


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