For 30 years, France exploded nuclear bombs in Mā’ohi Nui/French Polynesia, as part of its weapons testing programme.
The last one was detonated in 1996, when Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross was seven and living in Tahiti with her family. Years later, like thousands of other locals, she developed a cancer that she believes is linked to the radiation from France’s nuclear weapons experimentation.
Here, Hina talks to Teuila Fuatai about confronting the French nuclear legacy in her home islands, and how it’s spurred her anti-nuclear work and path as a politician.
30 fucking years they spent poisoning people. everyone who so much as fetched coffee for this shit should be put into a burlap sack and drowned