Yami Lester: tributes follow death of Aboriginal elder and Maralinga activist
by Australian Associated Press from Environment | The Guardian on (#2X6DM)
Lester, who was blinded by British atomic tests in South Australia in the 1950s, campaigned to get recognition for the 1,800 Indigenous Australians affected
Tributes have poured in for Aboriginal elder and activist Yami Lester, who died at the age of 75.
Lester, who died in Alice Springs on Friday night, lived a life of "great hardship and challenge" after being blinded as a young adolescent by the Maralinga atomic tests in the 1950s, which he called the "black mist".
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