Australians can finally sue Britain for being used as guinea pigs in nuke tests

Eric Frei · 6th June 2009, 07:21 PM

It's taken a very long time but has finally happened, and the Poms cant hide it anymore!

Yes, the British govt lied to both the Australian Government and it's servicemen as it used real people in Nuke tests here in Australia, many died from radiation poisoning and many had children with genetic defects.

It took a lot of persistence and just now they got the right to sue for damages when the tests occurred back in the 1950's.

What sort of people use folk as test subjects in nuke tests? British, lest we forget.

Britain's 1950s nuclear test servicemen win right to sue MoD for compensation | Mail Online

AdelaideNow... Court says nuclear test soldiers can sue Britain

Quote:

THE British High Court has concluded thousands of Australian service men and their families were treated as nuclear 'guinea pigs', giving them the right to sue the British Government.

The bombshell decision found the British Ministry of Defence did have a case to answer that it unfairly exposed servicemen from Australia, Britain, New Zealand and Fiji to atomic fallout during the series of tests in South Australia, Western Australia and off the eastern coast on atolls in the Pacific during the 1950s.

The sensational ruling was greeted with cheers from many veterans in Room 73 of the London Royal Courts of Justice where for five years 1000 of them have fought to prove they and their families had suffered because of radioactive exposure.

The case paves the way for millions of dollars in compensation to now be offered to the servicemen exposed on land, air and sea who were directed into mushroom clouds to test the effects of the weaponry on the human body.

The Australian Federal Government had stalled for years on whether to pay compensation, citing it was awaiting for a ruling to be made by the British High Court since the tests were done by the British Government.

"This is a brilliant day," one veteran outside court as he embraced a colleague.

Justice David Foskett now urged the Ministry of Defence to use their discretion and mediate with the thousands of veterans to organise appropriate compensation. He said the turning point in the case for his ruling was a 2006 New Zealand study that found "chromisonal aborrations" in veterans exposed.

In earlier hearings, the court heard the British Government and military administration actively withheld details of the dangers of atomic testing in the Pacific not only from the 25,000 servicemen who took part but also the Australian Government of the day.

The military men were promised "the greatest show on earth" but instead were exposed to serious levels of radiation that years later would kill many from a series of illnesses; many close to the drop zone also saw their children and their children's children suffer genetic defects..

The British atomic testers ordered military aircraft and ships to pass close to the mushroom clouds, while on land, soldiers stood close to the drop zone with little more than their uniforms.

Tests on their bodies later showed they had been exposed to dangerous levels of radiation but the effects were not known or at least understood.

Galbee · 6th June 2009, 10:12 PM

And about bloody time i hope they get properly compensated for all of thier suffering.

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