[CPEO-MEF] Marshall Islanders Awarded $341M

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Marshall Islanders Awarded $341M
May 9, 2000

By MICHAEL TIGHE, Associated Press Writer 

HONOLULU (AP) - In 1947, some 145 people were relocated from their homes on
a Marshall Island atoll so that the U.S. military could blow it to pieces.

When they returned to Enewetak Atoll in 1980, they found that some of their
land had been vaporized by 43 nuclear blasts, while the rest was pockmarked
by explosions or contaminated by radiation.


Twenty years later, a claims tribunal has awarded $341 million to
compensate the survivors and descendants for the lasting damage to them and
their once-lush homeland.

But collecting it may be the hardest part.

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