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In remembering the victims of the French nuclear Tests
Having always fought against the nuclear power since the creation of the party, it was natural that the representatives of association Moruroa e Tatou were joined by the representatives of Tāvini Huira’atira such as Tea Hirshon, Sabrina Birk, Tauhiti Nena, the members of the executive committee of the COJT and Tiamaraa.com association. Were also present two Japanese reporters charged to carry out a mission in Mangareva.
Admittedly, on July 2d, 1966, Polynesia entered the nuclear era with the explosion of the first bomb in the Mā’ ohi ’s sky and today it’s the 41th anniversary. But, this Monday July 2, 2007, it was mainly a question of being collected in memory of the 318 workers of Moururoa and Fangataufa deceased of which the report/ratio of their death and the consequences of the nuclear tests has never been proved.
- L’association Moruroa e Tatou
- John Doom en pleine allocution.
“the nuclear tests had serious consequences on the company mā’ ohi on its way of living, environnnement, health and psychology and the way of reflecting Polynesians. The Polynesians became by this gesture there accessory. They were used to build a nuclear weapon, a weapon of death. Some share, the Polynesians are not simply victims, they are doubly victims since they have also a certain culpability, perhaps for some, by report/ratio precisely with the nuclear tests which passed in our Country during 30 years. Association Moruroa E Tatou is an association former workers, victims of the nuclear tests which fight so that there is a recognition of the victims of the nuclear tests.
France which is the Fatherland of the Human rights, unfortunately, with the eyes of the victims of the nuclear tests, of Moruroa E Tatou does not fill this qualification there, to date. The Fatherland of the Human rights, unfortunately, left us deaths in our families. The Fatherland of the Human rights left us a very heavy heritage in the basement of Moururoa and Fangataufa. In all, there were 193 tests including 152 underground. And that, we must manage it for always. The Polynesian people are related to the nuclear power for always. I still dare to think that the Fatherland of the Human rights, one day will awake. It is the Combat which we carry out. We must carry out a combat with much, of dignity, with much of courage, much of will so that the victims of the nuclear tests are recognized. Not only Polynesians but as well French.
The Combat is long. Unfortunately, the French State, so far, is the only Democracy to affirm that the French nuclear tests were particularly clean despite everything the obviousnesses, the evidence that we bring, the medical files, the deaths, the victories that there nevertheless was in front of the courts for certain French in metropolis. Unfortunately, to date, no Polynesian still had profit of cause. I will as profit from it for saying as the policy has a very heavy responsibility in this file. Each one of us has a responsibility. Father of Family, child, politician. We have a whole there a responsibility in this file because it was nevertheless a political decision which there was so that the tests are done. And we think that the policy has to act much, of making much so that precisely the rights of the victims are recognized.
I profit from it for interpeler the politicians and will do we it directly. We will meet the leaders of the Country or the politicians of some edges which they are. That they are assumed, that they assume their responsibilities. Times, it are disturbing for me to see that some of our politicians… one has the impression that they have so much fear of the French State that they do not even dare to speak about the nuclear power. I think that it there is no evil of speaking about the nuclear power, on the contrary. I think that for certain people who do not do it, it is a duty. I even think that it is a crime if it is not made it, if one continues to be unaware of that there were tests. There were tests and it is for that that this evening, we are there. It is to recall to France that we leave a mark here for saying that there were nuclear tests in our Country, not simply for us but for our children too. “ declared Roland Oldham.
This last also underlined the difference that there is between the laws of the CPS and the Social security in France, in particular, in the case of the leukaemia which locally is not recognized like occupational disease. Polynesian having worked at the ECA reached of leukaemia did not obtain profit of cause whereas the Director of this same ECA, a subway obtained the opposite. Therefore, it is imperative that the policy, here, is concentrated on this problem to make there so that the laws change in this country for obtaining the same rights. To conclude, it encouraged the younger generation to continue the combat.
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