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Banabans
The Banabans are the indigenous people of Banaba in the central Pacific. Phosphate mining from 1900 destroyed much of their land, and after the Japanese occupation of the Second World War most of them were resettled in 1945 on Rabi Island in Fiji, bought with mining royalties. Their long campaign for compensation against Britain and the phosphate commissioners reached the English High Court in the 1970s.
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