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Dear President Nixon:
This letter is writte
en on behalf of the dispiaced_ peopleof
BikiniAt
Atoll, now residing_oniliisland,United’States‘Trust
a. es ne
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of the past SeiteFears,SadSuEberings of the Bikini people,
written with intention of placing the grievances of the Bikini
people before the United States.
This letter is most emphatically
a petition for redress of the sufferings and exploitation of the
Bikini people by the United States during the last 27 years.
The suffering of the Bikini people began, as far as the United
{States 1s concerned and responsible -- on January 24, 1946.
On
that date the Pentagon announced that the United States had selec-
ted Bikini Atoll in the Northern Marshall Islands as the site of a
series of atomic tests.
Part of the requirements of the test
program were that the test site be quite distant from all heavily
populated areas, 500 miles from all air and sea routes, and unin-
habited or containing only a few people who could be relocated.
The "few people" in this case were the people of Bikini.
They
may have been "few" from the United States point of view, but
from the Bikinians own point of view, they were all the people,
not just a few.
The decision of the Joint Chief of Staff made no
mememtmitalior
eutees or,
| provision for the feelings, aspirations, or wishes of the "few",
jit was simply unthinkable that so few could cr would defy the
wishes of so many.
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