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.
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."
1.
Name Kabotbot, K.
2.
Address
Age M-24
Island ‘Utirik'
3.
Atoll ‘Utirik'
Basis ofyour 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 mweier itok tokjen
Jerbal in Kokomalmel eo an Task Force Kenkajiljilimjuon
ilo 1 March 1954)
4.
Item
16 Bag MakMok
6
1
6
3
4
3
Dresses
towel
pants
shirts
T.shirts
towels
Value
$
2,00
1.80
1.50
3.60
2.50
75
35
Total
$ 32.00
10.00
1.50
21.60
7.50
3.00
1.05
$ 77.45