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1Hiro Tefaarere of Moruroa e tatou said he was outraged but not surprised about the way France was going about it.
2Moruroa e tatou said despite professions from France that it was working on compensation, the process was not functioning as it should.
3After changes to the French compensation law, the organisation Moruroa e tatou wants it to be scrapped as it now compensates no-one.
4Photo: AFP The organisation Moruroa e tatou is struggling to get the French state to pay compensation to the victims of nuclear weapons tests.
5Moruroa e tatou says the Senators took note that only a dozen of the nearly 900 cases were accepted to be eligible for compensation.
6Further protest marches are being planned in the Cook Islands over the To Tatou Vai bill.
7Tatou Aia Party has emerged as the biggest party in the second round of French Polynesia's early election.
8Roland Oldham was the founder and president of the organisation Moruroa e Tatou which helped victims win millions in compensation.
9Fifteen homes have been selected for major repairs in a project run by the town's He Iwi Kotahi Tatou Trust.
10The head of Mururoa e Tatou Roland Oldham said the change still needs to be approved by the French Parliament but he's cautiously optimistic.
11He has called on voters to abandon the old system and to opt to support Gaston Tong Sang of the pro-autonomy To Tatou Aia Party.
12The French Polynesia Nuclear Workers' Association, or Mururoa e Tatou, has been given 50,000 US dollars by the government to help with its work.