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July 29, 2021

Macron: Polynesians Owed "Debt" for French Nuclear Tests
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French President Emmanuel Macron has acknowledged France owes a "debt"
to French Polynesia, where the French carried out nearly 200 nuclear
tests between 1966 to 1996, but Macron stopped short of apologizing
during a visit to the South Pacific territory. A recent investigation by
the French investigative website Disclose estimated that 100,000 French
Polynesian residents may have been exposed to radiation from the tests.


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