What’s
happening to Fukushima children?
You
can help them as a jury. Here is how:
On 2012/01/12
To the Tokyo World
Citizens Tribunal
I am writing in support of the Fukushima Save Children Lawsuit, a laudable and
I think critically important effort to protect the most heartbreaking victims
of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the children whose lives are being
destroyed, and coming generations that may face the same horrors. It was
evident at once that the Fukushima disaster would have catastrophic
consequences, but its shocking scale has become far more apparent since, with
worse to come, very likely. Expert studies already reveal that the scale
may reach or even surpass the grotesque level of Chernobyl. Surely the
time has come to put an end to reliance on nuclear energy, with its devastating
potential human costs, so dramatically revealed once again at Fukushima.
In the light of the tragic history of the sole use of nuclear weapons ? so far
? there could be no more fitting place and time to end the scourge of nuclear
power in Japan than the World’s Citizens Tribunal meeting in Tokyo. I
hope dedicated efforts will be undertaken at the Tribunal to this end.
It is a privilege
to be able to lend personal support to the Fukushima Evacuate Children Lawsuit.
There is no better measure of the moral health of a society than how it treats
the most vulnerable people within it, and none or more vulnerable, or more
precious, than children who are the victims of unconscionable actions. For
Japan, and for all of us, this is a test that we must not fail.
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
Institute Professor
(Emeritus)
MIT, Cambridge MA USA
MIT, Cambridge MA USA
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