The Coming War on China Page #5

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which they would return in

Hawaii on their way back

in the Marshall Islands in the

middle of the Pacific Ocean.

- The United States government documents

clearly demonstrate that its scientists

conducted human radiation experiments

with Marshallese citizens.

Some of our people were injected with

or coerced to drink fluids

laced with radiation.

Other experimentation

involved the impurposeful

and premature resettlement of people

on islands highly

contaminated by weapons tests

to study how human beings absorb radiation

from their foods and environment.

(guitar music)

- [John Narrating] These

people are guinea pigs.

They are part of the

experiment Project 4.1.

They're being returned to Rongelap,

an island 100 miles from

Bikini by the US Navy.

They were told repeatedly,

it was safe to go home.

This happy couple believed

they were going home to safety.

The man is John Anjain,

the mayor of Rongelap.

The "happy savage" from

the iron room in Chicago.

His wife is Madura, and this

is their baby son Lekage.

They had no idea of the

horror that lay ahead.

They are being returned to an island

described by a US atomic energy official

"as by far the most

contaminated place on earth."

He added, "it will be

interesting to get a measure

"of human uptake when people

"live in a contaminated environment."

The people of Rongelap

remained on their poison island

for 28 years as guinea pigs.

The objects of regular,

scientific examination.

(bell rings)

The islanders pleaded

with the US authorities

to move them to safety as evidence emerged

of the second generation,

the children were also poisoned.

Desperate to leave, the islanders

called on Greenpeace to rescue them.

This ship, the Rainbow Warrior,

moved the entire population

to an uncontaminated island.

They called it Operation Exodus.

(native music)

(eerie music)

This is Doctor Robert Conard,

a leading medical scientist

of Brookhaven National Laboratories.

Conard devoted his distinguished career

to examining the islanders.

He wrote, "the habitation of

these people on the island

"will afford the most valuable

ecological radiation data

"on human beings.

"The various radio isotopes present

"can be traced from the

soil to the food chain

"and into human beings."

Doctor Conard gained the

trust of whole communities

when he brought the islanders

to New York to be examined,

he showed them the sights

and had them over for a barbecue.

When John Anjain's son

Lekage died aged 18,

Doctor Conard sent the

man they called a savage

a sympathy card.

From your friend, Bob.

In 1957, Madura Anjain was

the smiling young woman

seen here on her way back to Rongelap,

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