Translated Text about Association Moruroa e tatou

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Papeete-Lyon, 2 July 2002.

On July 2, 1966, France carried out its first nuclear explosion on the Moruroa atoll, followed by 45 more atmospheric tests in the Polynesian sky and 147 underground shots in the belly of the Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls. This July 2, 2002 is the 36th anniversary of this sad event.

The association Moruroa e tatou, created on July 4, 2001, currently has more than 1,000 members, former workers of Moruroa and Fangataufa. On this anniversary, she wishes to recall that many former workers suffered serious damage as a result of their presence in Moruroa: many of them died prematurely, and many more are suffering serious Health, cancer and other diseases. Moruroa e tatou also wishes to alert the responsible authorities to the health risks to which the populations of Polynesia have been exposed and more particularly those of the inhabited islands and atolls close to the old test sites.

For the past year, former Polynesian workers have no longer been isolated, with the establishment of the Veterans Testing Association in Metropolitan France, which currently includes more than 700 former military and civilian pilots from the Sahara and Polynesia test sites . A health survey of the Metropolitan Association revealed that 85% of veterans have health problems and 32.4% of veterans report one or more cancers, while the percentage of the annual incidence of cancer in France is 17% . These data intersect the initial information gathered from members of Moruroa e tatou.

On July 20, the Moruroa e tatou association will hold its first general assembly in the youth center of the parish of Arue. Many foreign guests, experts in monitoring the health consequences of nuclear tests, will be present: Professor Al Rowland of Massey University in New Zealand; Dr Jean-Louis Valatx, researcher at INSERM, France; Mrs Lyn Allison, Senator from Australia, Mr Bruno Barrillot, Researcher and Director of the Center for Documentation and Research on Peace and Conflict in Lyon; Mr. Paul Ahpoi, Fijian veteran and Vice President of Fiji Veterans; A Japanese delegation representing the victims' associations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Pastor Jean-Arnold de Clermont, President of the Protestant Federation of France.

On 5 August, on the eve of the anniversary ceremonies of the bombing of 1945, a major conference on the consequences of French nuclear tests was held in Hiroshima. Three representatives of the Association Moruroa e tatou alongside French Veterans delegates and Algerian delegates will testify to what they experienced during the nuclear tests and will appeal to the leaders of the nuclear powers. Together they will ask the heads of state to renounce their nuclear arsenals and assume their responsibilities vis-à-vis all workers, soldiers and populations whom they deliberately exposed to the bombing and spin-offs of nuclear test.

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