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Payment for loss of personal possessions
When personnel of Joint Task Force Seven shepherded the frightened
Rongelapese and Utirikese off their home islands and ancestral land
with the admonition that if they remained they would die, they were
told not to take anything with them,
Later,
they were asked to fill
out forms describing what personal goods they had lost during the time
the Utirikese (three months) and Rongelapese (three years) were away
from their islands.
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Those who filled out the papers were then paid
the stated value of the possessions.
The Committee was shown a copy
of an example of this form on Utirik and reproduces it for the record
below:
"Statement of claim for Personal Injury or Damage or loss to
Property."
l.
Name
2.
Address
Island
3.
Age M-24
‘Utirik'
Atoll ‘Utirtik'
Basis of your claim:
the following personal injury
or loss or damage to property was a result of the
Test Activities of Task Force Seven on 1] March 1954:
{kin un eo
im Maron Konono Kake:
Armij
rein Lajrak tok
flol tok im rejoko ak jorran men ko mvetfer itok tokjen
Jerbal in Kokomalmel co an Task Force Kenkajiljilimjuon
flo 1 March 1954)
a.
Item
Value
16 Bag MakMok
6 Dresses
1 towel
S$
Total
S$
6 pants
2.00
1.80
1.50
32.00
10.00
1.50
3.60
21.60
3 shirts
4 T.shirts
3 towels
2.50
75
35
7.50
3.00
1.05
$ 77.45
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