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johnny9fingersNice to know what the lives of Ivory Coast natives are worth according to Trafigura.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/18/trafigura-victims-compensation-offer
Actually nothing, nada, zilch, a big fat zero.
The Ivory Coast authorities should not have let Claude Dauphin out of prison until the scale of damages for the victims had been dealt with alongside the cost of the clean-up. The rather impressive sum of £1,000 each for the victims who are still alive, but nothing to the families of the dead. Although this ain't a war-crime, it certainly seems to be a crime against the humans in the Ivory Coast. Perhaps this should count as a crime against humanity.
Me, I'd string these folk up. Should I ever meet someone who works for that company, I'll know where to spit.
£1,000 will buy you what exactly? Even in a third-world country? It won't even buy you the smallest cheapest new car from India. But the dead don't even get the money to bury them. Corporate manslaughter in the first world carries what penalties? Where is the weregild?
I am reminded of the Bhopal disaster.
Bruce, what's your opinion?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/18/trafigura-victims-compensation-offer
Actually nothing, nada, zilch, a big fat zero.
The Ivory Coast authorities should not have let Claude Dauphin out of prison until the scale of damages for the victims had been dealt with alongside the cost of the clean-up. The rather impressive sum of £1,000 each for the victims who are still alive, but nothing to the families of the dead. Although this ain't a war-crime, it certainly seems to be a crime against the humans in the Ivory Coast. Perhaps this should count as a crime against humanity.
Me, I'd string these folk up. Should I ever meet someone who works for that company, I'll know where to spit.
£1,000 will buy you what exactly? Even in a third-world country? It won't even buy you the smallest cheapest new car from India. But the dead don't even get the money to bury them. Corporate manslaughter in the first world carries what penalties? Where is the weregild?
I am reminded of the Bhopal disaster.
Bruce, what's your opinion?
