Tag: French nuclear tests
Thousands rally in Tahiti in protest over nuclear weapons legacy
RNZ Pacific
Several thousand people in French Polynesia have joined a march demanding France own up to the damage caused by its nuclear weapons tests.
The...
NZ nuclear-free activists, campaigners back Tahiti’s Mā’ohi Lives Matter rally
Over the past 50 years, France has continued to deny the tragedies of nuclear testing in French Occupied Polynesia by propagating the theory of...
Temaru calls for massive turnout for Mā’ohi Lives Matter nuclear-free rally
By Jean-Pierre Viatge in Pape'ete
Fifteen days after Tahiti Nui's anti-nuclear protest on July 2, the Tavini Huiraatira party has organised a march Mā'ohi Lives...
Case #017 RNZ podcast – The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
On 10 July 1985 the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, was sunk at an Auckland wharf.
Two French secret agents planted two limpet...
Tahiti protest rally marks France’s ‘crime against humanity’ first atomic test...
RNZ Pacific
More than 2000 demonstrators in French Polynesia have joined a march in the capital Pape'ete to mark the 55th anniversary of the first...
Mā’ohi Nui’s search for nuclear justice – the French ‘reset’ button...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Ena Manuireva and Tony Fala
On 27 May 2021, a significant event took place in Rwanda where French President Emmanuel Macron asked...
France denies covering-up deadly nuclear tests in French Polynesia
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The French government has denied any cover-up over radiation levels in the Pacific following its nuclear testing in the region, as...
Macron hosts French ‘truth and justice’ Pacific nuclear test legacy talks
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
While a Paris roundtable about the legacy of nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls is eagerly awaited by...
Temaru calls for Tahiti nuclear tests roundtable in New York –...
RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru says high-level talks on France's nuclear legacy due in Paris this month should be held at the...
France asked to pay for Tahiti nuke victims ahead of Paris...
RNZ Pacific
The chair of the board of French Polynesia's social security agency CPS has called on the French state to pay for the medical...
Tahitian academic says Paris must pay for impacts of French nuclear...
RNZ Pacific
A Tahitian academic living in Auckland whose family and home island of Mangareva were impacted on by three decades of French nuclear weapons...
The Moruroa Files – how cutting edge science, secret documents and...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Cutting edge nuclear science, a trove of declassified documents, and investigative journalism have exposed the human and environmental impacts of French...
Controversy over renaming Tahiti’s hospital after Chirac amid covid crisis
SPECIAL REPORT: By Ena Manuireva in Auckland
It seems a long time ago - some 124 days - since Mā’ohi Nui deplored its first covid-19...
Echoes of the Rainbow Warrior – have the lessons been learned?
SPECIAL REPORT: The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior happened 35 years ago this year. The event had ramifications across the Pacific, and politicised a...
Solidarity groups rally in support of Mā’ohi independence leader Temaru
COMMENT: By Ena Manuireva and Tony Fala in Auckland
Tomorrow – November 25 – is D-Day for Tahitian pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru’s trial in New...
The judgment of Tahiti’s Oscar Temaru – a neocolonial sense of...
ANALYSIS: By Ena Manuireva
The unfolding in French Polynesia of the latest judiciary entanglements of pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru versus the French administration is being...
French nuclear tests: ‘I bury people nearly every day, what was...
By Matthew Scott, reporting for the Pacific Media Centre
The day began with a video, showing a disparate collection of arresting images - the drowned...
35 years on, Tahiti’s Temaru likely guest in Rainbow Warrior rewind
Flashback: Tagata Pasifika's John Pulu talks to Oscar Temaru in 2016.
By David Robie
One of the champions of the South Pacific’s nuclear-free and independence campaigners,...
From nuclear refugees to climate justice – the Rainbow Warrior legacy
SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie, who sailed on the original Rainbow Warrior to Rongelap atoll and is author of the book Eyes of Fire.
Thirty...
Pacific bombs, nuclear weapons and the Rongelap evacuation
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Thirty five years ago this week in another life Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie was an environmental journalist on...
Protest marks French Pacific nuclear tests at Moruroa anniversary
By RNZ Pacific
A sit-in has been held outside the French High Commission in French Polynesia to commemorate the 54th anniversary of the first nuclear...
Crimes NZ: David Robie on the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
From RNZ's Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan
On 10 July 1985, the Greenpeace environmental ship Rainbow Warrior was sunk at an Auckland wharf by two bombs...