Ibedul gibbons

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Ibedul Gibbons, around 1978

Ibedul Yutaka Miller Gibbons (* 1944 ) is a chief of Koror in the island republic of Palau . For many years he led the struggle of the residents for a ban on the storage of nuclear weapons by the USA on their territory. In 1983 he and the people of Palau received the Right Livelihood Award (Alternative Nobel Prize).

Life

On his mother's side, Yutaka Miller Gibbons was a descendant of the Caribbean merchant James Gibbons, who had been made head of administration of the capital Koror by the German colonial power . His paternal grandfather was an immigrant Chinese. Yutaka did his military service in the US Army, as Palau was under the protectorate of the USA at that time. In 1972 he was appointed head ( Ibedul ) of the Eoueldaob ( Koror ) sub-area after his maternal uncle died.

In 1979, the citizens of Palau voted for a constitution that for the first time in the world banned the use and storage of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. In the following years he defended this passage with the population against political pressure from the USA. In 1983 they received the Right Livelihood Award for this. In 1984 the documentary Strategic Trust: The Making of a Nuclear Free Palau was made .

In 1994 the Republic of Palau signed an association agreement with the USA that no longer contained a ban on the storage of nuclear weapons.

In 1996 he lost the presidential election against incumbent Kuniwo Nakamura with 36% of the vote.

literature

  • Gedeko von Lüpke, Peter Erlenwein: Le "Nobel" alternatif, 13 portraits de lauréats . La Plage, Sète. 2008
  • Roy Smith, Peter Erlenwein: The Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement: After Mururoa . IB Tauris. 1997. p. 13ff.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Claudia Lauterbach: About women, balance of power and modernization - the somewhat different gender ratio on the Pacific island of Palau. (= Gender and society series). Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2001, ISBN 3-8100-3011-2 , p. 97
  2. ↑ Chief Gibbons is a generation removed from Chief Termeteet. His father is a half-blooded Chinese from a large and powerful clan of __. He inherited the crown by his mother's line. A veteran of the US Army, he was called back from the service to assume his reign at the death of his uncle, ... , John O. Ngiraked: Heritage Belau . Island Horizon Printing, 1999, p. 5
  3. ↑ Administration and chief in Palau
personal data
SURNAME Ibedul gibbons
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ibedul Yutaka Gibbons (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palau chief of Koror
DATE OF BIRTH 1944