Politico has an aticle about the few survivors who have settled in Iowa. The US bombed their homeland to smithereens testing nuclear weapons and promised them relocation with benefits. As we have seen many times, the US doesn't keeps its promises. Thanks in part to Bill Clinton's welfare "reform", these people are still suffering.
When U.S. soldiers first arrived in 1944, they were greeted as liberators—a status they swiftly capitalized on, appealing to the islanders’ Christian faith when seeking permission to test nuclear weapons two years later. In one exchange, captured by military cameras, Commodore Ben Wyatt told an island leader named Juda that the Marshallese would be like the children of Israel who wandered in the desert and sacrificed to bring peace to the world. Would the islanders be willing to make their own sacrifice, to help the United States end wars forever?
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“People are getting sick from what they’ve done to us,” said Maitha Jolet, a 61-year-old Marshallese who was one of the first to move to Dubuque. “They think we are not human. The U.S. government think we are from some … ” he trailed off, disgusted. “They did not realize we are human beings.”
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They didn't care.
Some Marshallese allege that the U.S. government, even after learning about the risks of radiation, willfully experimented on the islanders, pointing to a set of declassified documents that appear to reveal that residents were deliberately put in harm’s way. The United States has said contaminating the islanders with nuclear fallout was not intentional.
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A handful of lawmakers from Hawaii, drawn to the plight of the Marshallese as fellow Pacific islanders and, in some cases, residents of their state, have fought to reverse the change, but the effort has fizzled in every session of Congress.
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