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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 11:48 AM
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Burned by the Ore

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http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=962&blz=1

Gilbert Badoni holds a photo of his family taken in a Colorado uranium mining camp during the Cold War. Gilbert, in the lower left of the photo, said his father died of cancer from the mining and now his mother, two brothers and sister, all in the photo, have cancer. Gilbert has lung disease. He said the United States government used Navajo as guineas pigs and knew unprotected Navajo miners would die.

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“The United States government knew all along the uranium mining would kill Navajos, the government got away with it,” said Badoni, among Navajos organizing opposition to further uranium mining on the Navajo Nation.

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During a recent conference opposing uranium mining in Shiprock, New Mexico, organized by grassroots Navajo, Pino quoted the late Fred Johnson, Navajo councilman from Shiprock, N.M., who died mysteriously in a plane crash.

"The basic concept - to destroy the land - is to destroy the people."

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Badoni said, "We should have never had to deal with this pain. It not only harmed our people, but it scarred our Mother Earth, poisoned our land and our water."
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