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Ibba Bobaker. Secretary General of the Association of Victims of Nuclear Explosions tawriret. This association was founded for our relatives and families who were affected by the radiation of the French nuclear explosions from 1961 to 1966. After France left these contaminated sites, left radioactive waste scattered in the area and then put up a barbed wire fence. But the fence, due to time, was stolen by farmers and used in their agricultural land, even the waste that remained taken by the residents of the area and restored their homes. And that’s what caused them cancers, breast cancer, leukemia, lung cancer, all kinds of cancers known in our region, and our parents didn’t know that these substances produce radiation that damages the body. And they thought it was the remnants of the iron and gold mine that the French spread after independence, the mining company came to our region and brought specialists from Russia, Romania and neighbouring countries who educated the people of the region about the seriousness of the waste. From the effects of the nuclear bomb and the atomic bomb, and despite all this, we started messaging France to ask for their rights to retire, but the French were ducking and every time they argued something, for example, come to France and every lawyer or some personally. And he has various diseases and even health care is not available and hospitals do not specialised in cancers this is the motive in the establishment of the association and we asked in many meetings on the issue of nuclear explosions because they are very dangerous and dangerous that these radiations will be lost in our region for up to 24,000 years and billions of years and remain in rocks, plants and groundwater. We asked the state to take care of this crime carried out by France. And add it to the textbooks so that the youth of future generations will study it as a crime against humanity committed by the French in our region.