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PELEVION FCM MR. TODD TRUKINS COMIEARING S18
WRUST TeiRIVORY OF THE PACLFIC TSLANDS
(Circulated in accordance with rule 85, paragraph 1, of the
rules of procedure of the Trusteeship Council.)
Killi Island
Marshall Islands
Trust Territory of the
Pacific Islands
15 Feoruary 1968
resicens
Trusteeship Council
United Nations
New York, N.Y.
Dear President and Members of the Trusteeship Council;
My wife and I are living
on Killi Island in the Marshall District of the Trust
Territory of the Pacific Islands.
We have deen here since September 1967; we teach
English to the students here as menbers of the Peace Corps.
fhe history of the Killi people is availadie in the work by Leonard Mason
‘entitled The Bikinians, a Transplanted Povulation.
for a brief synopsis.
When the United States wanted a Pacific atoll for atomic
testing, they chose Bikini.
relocate.
I ask your indulgence, however,
The people living there were ‘asked' to temporarily
After a long search, the island of Killi was selected and the people
moved; there had been 2 previous moves to Ronrik and Kwajeicin Atolls.
‘been their temporary heme for 20 years!
give many convincing arguments.
This has now
They don't want to stay on Killi, and they —
We feel their arguments are worth being listened to,
and we want “you to be aware of their unnecessary hardships.
These people have been transferred from a typical Marshallese atoll to a single
island.What does this mean?
Jt means there is no jagoon.
This is the crux of the
Killi problem. . A legeon is the etaf? of life to the Marehallese; it provides theirs
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