Marshall Islands begins legal action aimed at global nuclear disarmament

[unhappycamper]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/10/marshall-islands-begins-legal-action-aimed-at-global-nuclear-disarmament

South Pacific state argues at International Court of Justice that health and lives of its people destroyed by dozens of nuclear tests along its territory from 1946-1958

Marshall Islands begins legal action aimed at global nuclear disarmament
Thursday 10 March 2016 00.42 EST

The Marshall Islands has begun an extraordinary legal challenge against the world’s nuclear powers, aiming to reinvigorate momentum towards global nuclear disarmament.

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Another Marshall Islands representative, Tony de Brum, told the court he watched one of the US nuclear tests in his home country as a 9-year-old boy while fishing with his grandfather.

“The entire sky turned blood red,” he told judges. He said some of his country’s islands were “vaporized” by the tests.

The Marshall Islands initially filed cases against all nine known or suspected nuclear weapons states – the US, Russia, Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea.

[raging moderate]

1. Good for you, Marshall Islanders!

We should not have let this happen to them.

[tk2kewl]

2. k&r

[MisterP]

3. well, what's left of them