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Call for compensation for Marshall Islanders, victims of USA atomic bomb testing

Hear-This-wayAUDIO: Nuclear test survivors call for compensation 6 September 2013,  Survivors of the American nuclear tests in the 1950s on Rongelap Atoll in Marshall Islands still want to go home. http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/pacific-beat/nuclear-test-survivors-calls-for-compensation/118676  They want the United States to clean up the radiation on their atoll and provide compensation too.

The group describes themselves as living in exile. They want the Forum Leaders and the Marshalls government to raise the issue with the US Secretary for Interior Affairs, Sally Jewell, who is in Majuro for the Forum.

The Marshalls’ senator for Ronelap Atoll, Kenneth Kedi, says that Rongelap wasn’t bombed directly but suffers from the nuclear fallout and there there have been several failed attemps to clean it up.  Presenter: Geraldine Coutts Speaker: Senator for Ronelap Atoll on Marshall Islands, Kenneth Kedi

September 7, 2013 - Posted by | general

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  1. Op crossroads.. D.o.j. Gv’g my elderly mom the run around …n.. Records conviently destroyed in pent’n fire 1973.. I hv the personnel list for the 53rd air phot wing.. Etc.. Sue thosr bastasds.. Several hundred names, rank n home cities w/states..

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