VITTORIA DELLE SENIORES ABORIGENE

Il ricorso delle "anziane aborigene" contro "l'acquisizione urgente obbligatoria" delle loro terre è stato accolto dal tribunale federale a Canberra. Il Governo Federale Australiano ha dovuto rinunciare a costruire un'unica grande discarica nazionale per scorie radioattive in South Australia.

We are the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta, the Senior Aboriginal Women of Coober Pedy, South Australia.

 

We are the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta, the Senior Aboriginal Women from Coober Pedy, South Australia

We are the Aboriginal women Yankunytjatjara, Antikarinya and Kokatha.
We know the country.
The poison the Government is talking about will poison the land.
We say "NO radioactive dump in our ngura - in our country."
Its strictly poison we don’t want it. ...

Listen to us!

Ivy Makinti Stewart, Eileen Kampukuta Brown, Lucy Kowing Wilton, Dianne Edwards, Emily Munyungka Austin, Angelina Wonga, Peggy Cullinan.

All of us were living when the government used the country for the bomb.
The Government thought what they knew what they were doing then.
We know the poison from the radioactive dump will go down under the ground and leak into the water.

«Tutte noi eravamo vive quando il governo ha usato il paese per la bomba. Il Governo pensava di sapere ciò che loro stavano facendo. Noi sappiamo che il veleno dalla discarica radioattiva penetrerà nel terreno e percolerà nell'acqua.»

50 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

AT EMU JUNCTION AND MARALINGA

Brief History of the Bombs

“We got people still suffering. You haven’t got one healthy child nowadays.”

During the 1950’s and 60’s the British Government tested atomic bombs in South Australia at Emu Junction and Maralinga. The Australian Government barely questioned the nature and effect of the nuclear tests as they forged close links with the British Military. To carry out the tests many Maralinga, Pitjantjatjara and Kokatha people were forcibly removed from their homeland by ‘Aboriginal Protectors’, continuing the dispossession and genocide that began with European invasion.

Nuclear weapons contain deadly substances that remain radioactive for up to 250, 000 years contaminating land and water systems. The radiation exposure to local communities and country was extensive as dense radioactive clouds travelled far across the land. Furthermore, the testing range boundaries were not secure and warning signs were in English. For the Aboriginal people who still walked the Western Desert, many living traditionally, radiation exposure caused sickness and death. There are tragic accounts of families sleeping in the bomb craters. Many Australian service personnel were also exposed to radiation.

At Emu Junction (also referred to as Emu Field) a major test Totem 1 was detonated on October 15^th, 1953. The blast sent a dense radioactive cloud, the Black Mist, far beyond the ‘testing range’over 250kms northwest to Wallatinna and down to Coober Pedy. It was later proved that it was responsible for the sudden outbreak of sickness and death experienced by nearby Aboriginal communities, including members of the Kupa Piti Kunga Tjuta and their extended families.

This extreme suffering should serve

real testimony to the dangerous

nature of the nuclear industry and its

poisonous legacy; radioactive waste.

Fonte: http://www.iratiwanti.org/