for this they needed vast open spaces remote and sparsely inhabited french polynesia was just that a large area bigger than europe the new didn't know was that two years earlier in one nine hundred sixty one topographic surveys had already been carried out. at one point he might have seen that i was embarrassed that i was questioning myself and i didn't even have time to talk see he told me that if it didn't go well you know there could have been a fair because he would declare that french polynesia would become a military territory they're. just so big good i knew that fred the state would take it by force i knew where end it would come till it was too important for friends and for to go from here on february the six to nine hundred sixty four the territorial assembly of polynesia buckled under pressure and approved the general's decision as a result to little known atolls and for tougher were taken over by the state and became defacto military zones and there were no grounds upon which to claim ownership of those assholes your car owners were still there so there's a lot at least h

history nearly as you deny the environmental damage throughout the oceanic in particular in french polynesia just to deny a part of every polynesians identity depriving them of their land and their environment is to deprive them of part of themselves the guy who this stone comes from or. sits and this is exactly what all of this is about this afternoon nothing else this is more. let's visualize the forty one flashes in the thermonuclear explosions in the middle of the sky should move above more money for magnificent said some of your predecessors minister. stewards visualize again the one hundred thirty one underground explosions and underwater blasts one hundred twenty three of which were and more atolls minister my dear colleagues if i offered you this stone would you feel safe placing it under the pillow of your loved ones every night or wouldn't you at least like to have a choice know that they're none of the parents and none of their children had this choice. after the first nuclear tests in nine hundred sixty in the midst of the algerian uprising france needed to find new frontiers as

twelve only really in two thousand and five the investigation commission of the assembly of french polynesia asked the state to recognize the two types of consequences clean up the atolls and return them to their native population at the end of the plenary session on this monday the sixteenth of january just a few days ago the assembly of french polynesia gave a favorable opinion with a large majority with regards to the presentation of the war it is then a big question that i asked the senate today and i asked them to happily follow me in the spirit of the retrocession of the two atolls we must give these are tossed back. it is thanks to us that france became a powerful international figure thanks to our land on exist we exist and these islands exist parents lived here and i think france owes the owners of mordor or a lot of. the. german i put this proposition to a vote who is in favor of adopting this law. who is against the proposition is therefore adopted as a law. it's only a small win for the senate only the first step in a long legislative procedure which will see the bill presented t

in particular in french polynesia is to deny a part of every polynesians identity depriving them of their land their environment is to deprive them of part of themselves the guy who this stone comes from or. sits and this is exactly what all of this is about this afternoon nothing else this. is what is all that's visualized the forty one flashes in the thermonuclear explosions in the middle of the sky should move above more money she said some of your predecessors minister. visualize again the one hundred thirty one underground.

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to deny the environmental damage throughout the oceana in particular in french polynesia is to deny a part of every polynesians identity depriving them of their land their environment is to deprive them of part of themselves the guy who this stone comes from or. it's and this is exactly what all of this is about this afternoon nothing else this is more.

we went to new zealand to prepare to go to french colonies --nd the french decided french polynesia, nd the french decided to dissipate us. they put a hole in the hull with a bomb in the second bomb went off about 45 seconds later and trapped our photographer in his cabin and killed him. he was the only crew member with two children, and his murder certain he ripped a hole in their lives that really has never been repaired. >> talk about what happened to you. while you have been granted amnesty, you were jailed. starting with peter, can you both describe your time in jail and where you go from here? >> well, when you're held in russia under investigation for a crime, it is called isolation. you are in one cell 23 hours a day. you supposedly have about an hour in an exercise cell, which is only slightly bigger than the one you're kept in. you are really isolated from all of your family, colleagues. it was a month before i was able to speak to my wife. it was all most a month before i was able to speak to my lawyer. you are in isolation. >> i can add to that. is one of, isolation the wo