Members of a U.S. Senate hearing on March 14 said that Washington’s relationships with Pacific Island countries are based on respect. If this is true, the United States must compensate and apologize to Marshallese victims of U.S. radiation experiments that began in the 1950s. The Marshall Islands is a crucial U.S. partner, with a diaspora in this country, but the relationship is marred by this longstanding injustice.
The United States administered the Marshall Islands as a trust territory from 1947 to its independence in 1986, and was…
