Roland Oldham (1950 — 16 March 2019)[1] [2] was a French Polynesian teacher, unionist, and anti-nuclear campaigner. He was president of Mururoa e Tatou from its foundation until his death.[3] He was a grandson of French Polynesian writer Te Arapo.[1]
Oldham was born in Papeete.[1] After working as a teacher in Mo'orea, he moved to New Zealand and then Australia.[1] After returning to French Polynesia in the 1980s he became involved in the trade union movement.[1] In 1995 he joined Greenpeace to protest against French nuclear testing in the Pacific.[1] In 2001, alongside John Doom, he founded Mururoa e Tatou to campaign for compensation for French nuclear test workers and victims.[3] In 2009 he was threatened with prosecution after calling a court decision against compensating test victims an example of colonial justice.[4] [5]