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Nuclear testAround three thousand people have protested in Tahiti against a French government proposal to compensate victims of atomic tests.

The demonstrators say the compensation does not go far enough and the zones and illnesses designated for compensation are too narrow. The demonstration called by French Polynesia's main religious and political groupings coincided with a visit by a French ministry of defence delegation. Some 150 thousand civilian and military personnel took part in 210 nuclear tests conducted France on the Polynesian archipelago and Algeria between 1960 and 1996.
Many of them later developed serious health problems. The law on “recognising and compensating victims of nuclear tests” is expected
to be passed by the French Senate on Tuesday

By
Online Editor
1:55 pm GMT+12, 21/12/2009, French Polynesia

SOURCE: RADIO AUSTRALIA/PACNEWS