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• Polynesia

  French nuclear tests ’showered vast area of Polynesia with radioactivity’ – « One of the biggest secrets of the French army ».

  3 July 2013, by CHRISAFIS Angelique

  Declassified papers show extent of plutonium fall-out from South Pacific tests of 60s and 70s was kept hidden, says French paper.
  French nuclear tests in the South Pacific in the 1960s and 1970s were far more toxic than has been previously acknowledged and hit a vast swath of Polynesia with (...)

• Polynesia

  Tahiti: Temaru’s support for independence upsets Paris

  23 August 2006, by DIXON Norm

  Since Oscar Temaru was elected president of Tahiti Nui (French Polynesia) in June 2004, he has infuriated the Pacific country’s colonial masters in Paris. The furore over Temaru’s July 28 leaking of a letter confirming that the French government has systematically covered up the link between its (...)