in support of their right to live on an unpolluted Rongelap island." In 2019 Chinese investor Cary Lan leased a large part of the atoll for a proposed special economic zone, in what was seen as part of ongoing efforts by China to expand its reach into the Pacific and conduct chequebook diplomacy against Taiwan. After his arrest in Thailand in 2020, the project was abandoned. He was deported to the United States in 2022 for allegedly bribing elected officials in this case. Education Marshall Islands Public School System operates Mejatto Elementary School, which serves descendants of the community in Mejatto that resided in Rongelap Atoll. References External links Marshall Islands site Rongelap Atoll official site Bikini - mon amour: the film by Oliver Herbrich shows the Greenpeace evacuation and the resettlement on Mejato island 1987. Radio Bikini : Oscar-nominated 1987 documentary on the 1946 atomic bomb tests on Bikini Atoll and the effects on the Bikinians as well as the US sailors who witnessed the tests. Het Einde van de Wereld The End of the World (1995/VPRO-TV/Theo Uittenbogaard) a Dutch documentary on the history of the people of the island Rongelap, who were evacuated due to fallout from the Bikini nuclear tests and their (inc. John Anjain) hearing by a Senate Committee in Washington DC Further reading Atolls of the Marshall Islands Ralik Chain Municipalities of the Marshall Islands