France has officially acknowledged that French Polynesians were effectively forced into accepting almost 200 nuclear tests conducted over 30 years and that it is responsible for compensating them for the illnesses caused by the fallout. The French parliament issued the admission in a bill reforming the status of the collectivity of 118 islands in the Read more
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President admits to lies about French nuclear testing danger
Thursday, November 22nd, 2018
Leaders in France’s South Pacific islands lied about the dangers of nuclear testing, French Polynesia’s president Edouard Fritch says. From 1960 to 1996, France carried out almost 200 nuclear tests in French Polynesia. “I’m not surprised that I’ve been called a liar for 30 years. We lied to this population that the tests were clean. Read more