Comments on: From nuclear refugees to climate justice – the Rainbow Warrior legacy  https://thedailyblog.co.nz/from-nuclear-refugees-to-climate-justice-the-rainbow-warrior-legacy/ Read the Other Side of the Story Sun, 12 Jul 2020 16:59:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Kheala https://thedailyblog.co.nz/from-nuclear-refugees-to-climate-justice-the-rainbow-warrior-legacy/#comment-140360 Sun, 12 Jul 2020 16:59:40 +0000 https://thedailyblog.co.nz/?p=129359#comment-140360 In reply to John W.

Yes.

]]> By: John W https://thedailyblog.co.nz/from-nuclear-refugees-to-climate-justice-the-rainbow-warrior-legacy/#comment-140359 Sun, 12 Jul 2020 08:55:59 +0000 https://thedailyblog.co.nz/?p=129359#comment-140359 The racist actions of USA, UK, France and Australia, show no respect for human rights and health, or the land and people under their control.
If they were white people being displaced, losing their traditional homes and coming back to radiation, cancer and birth deformities in younger generations, then would it have made any difference?

Aboriginals were not completely cleared from their lands where the test sit was. No permission was sought from the land owners.

When an Australian scientist asked British authorities about the potential danger to local Aboriginal people, the response was that “a dying race couldn’t influence the defense of Western civilisation”.

After multiple nuclear tests, starting in 1956, decades later some unsatisfactory cleaning up was attempted and some cash was paid out to the tribe who were officially allowed to go back to their contaminated land after over 50 years.

But all of the four nations that conducted or allowed testing on their land the story is pretty much the same. Fuck the natives, we will do as we like.

Court battles have carried on for years and chronic ongoing health conditions continue.
The nuclear testing has done nothing for the world except scatter radioactive pollution globally and locally but made a few rich who built the bombs.
Genocide.

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