To dispel whale's traffic can drive in prison
By Denis Delbecq • June 23rd, 2008 in 10:07 · Category: Actuality
To practice activism in sense advocated by Greenpeace is not a reliable activity. While this week in Santiago (Chile) the plenary assembly of the international whaling Committee opens, two ecological activists of the organisation were stopped on June 20th in Japan. They are accused of having hidden a cardboard containing whale's meat in the places of a company of transport last April. A flight taken in the name of the campaign led by Greenpeace against the activities of " scientific peach " of Japan.
Every year, during the southern summer, it is the same catchphrase. While the fleet of whaling goes to sea to go in Antarctic waters, two non-governmental organisations (NGO), Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd, drive in sea a true guerilla to try to slow down the capture of Cetaceas. But this year, Greenpeace had also chosen to investigate in earth, to show that the peach has other purpose than to feed the Japanese market of whale's meat.
In May, after four months of inquiry, the ecological organisation announced to have discovered the proof of a large traffic of whale's meat. For proof, Greenpeace had displayed a cardboard containing 23 kilogrammes of meat. According to the organisation, the meat was hidden by members of crew of Nisshin Maru, ship-admiral of the Japanese whaling fleet. A common practice, according to the inquiry of the NGO, which would have court many years, to the knowledge of all crew.
The Japanese authorities opened an inquiry for flight, after a complaint of the society of transport. Greenpeace had c’ is what asserts the organisation offered to deliver both "malefactors". But authorities took out the big game, throwing many house searches, in seat of Greenpeace and in the domicile of the activists, after an escape told television channels.
Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki are from now on under bolts. As for the inquiry into the very traffic, she was left, announced the office of the prosecutor of Tokyo. Greenpeace threw a petition to ask for the liberalisation of its two activists. In some days, more than eighty-seven thousand persons signed it. In Santiago, the members of the international whaling Committee are again going to get torn to pieces on the lifting of moratorium which forbids the commercial peach the whale. Japan, Norway and Iceland, notably, claim its resumption many years.
Picture: © Greenpeace
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