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Court Clears Company And Indonesian Government Over Mud Volcano Disaster |
2009-05-31 |
With no justice from her government, Indonesian villager Parti has her own plans for the company executives blamed for unleashing a mud volcano that buried her village three years ago. Throw them in the steaming, stinking sludge and let them burn, she says. "Let them burn to death so they can feel my suffering," said the 55-year-old mother of two, one of thousands of bitter victims who are still waiting for compensation so they can rebuild their shattered lives. "I'm not begging for sympathy, only demanding what's rightfully mine." Three years after the May 29, 2006 eruption of "Lusi," East Java's massive mud volcano continues to ooze foul sludge over the countryside, consuming homes and farmland and defying every attempt at containment. |
Posted by:3dc |
#4 Look on the good side of it. You can probably package up the mud and make sheep dip out of it. |
Posted by: Alaska Paul 2009-05-31 12:55 |
#3 Unfortunately, the mud is full of phenol, aka carbolic acid, which is nasty to a degree. |
Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-05-31 11:29 |
#2 Ah, good! Why should Lapindo pay for something like this, when it was God's will that it happened? The people should submit to God's will and not question such things. |
Posted by: gromky 2009-05-31 07:29 |
#1 These people have ignored the rule of "when you get lemons, make lemonade." Where are the |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2009-05-31 01:06 |