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| ■Tokyo High Court Made Extremely Unjust Judgment Kotopanjang People Appeal to Supreme Court |
| ■Appeal Court Judgment Scheduled for Dec.26
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| ■Anti-nuclear power people occupied the street Kotopanjang Dam Photos Laid Out in front of the Foreign Ministry  |
| ■Give Us a Fair Judgment! Appeal Court Judgment Scheduled for Dec.26, 2012. 15:00-, Courtroom #101, Tokyo High Court. Mr.Karim, Chairman of the Struggle Council for Kotopanjang Dam Victims, and a representative of the WALHI (Friends of the Earth Indonesia) will appear in court. Join us at the Tokyo High Court!  After ten years of struggle since 2002 filing, the appeal court judgment will be handed down by the Tokyo High Court. Karim (above), Chairman of the Struggle Council for Kotopanjang Dam Victims, and a representative of the WALHI (Friends of the Earth Indonesia) will come to Japan. Through the 477-page brief on appeal, new evidences, examinations of witnesses, and opinion statements, we and Kotopanjang dam victims thoroughly uncovered the faults of the Tokyo District Court's 2009 judgment, which unfairly obeyed the false causes of the Japanese government, JICA(Japan International Cooperation Agency), JBIC(Japan Bank for International Cooperation), and TEPSCO(Tokyo Electric Power Services Co.Ltd). The truth must be appreciated and a reversal of judgment is possible. We need your support. Please join us at the judgment day! |
| ■Appeal trial at the Tokyo High Court Concluded on Sep.14, 2012 "We will never give up. Please reverse the Tokyo District Court's ruling and give us a just judgment." (Opinion Statement by Herman from Indonesia)  The appeal trial was concluded with this opinion state. the appeal court judgment is scheduled for December 26. After the hearing, Herman made a solidarity visit to the anti-nuclear power tent space set up in front of the Trade Ministry. The Action Center held the 10th annual general meeting in the evening, where a course of action up to the appeal court judgement was discussed. |
| ■2nd International Solidarity Symposium against Japan's ODA Held.
Damage by the ODA and Nuclear Power Export Reported and Discussed on July
28 to 29, 2012.
 ●Telma Manaran, a victim of the Batangas ODA project and representative of the PCAD ●Attorneys for plaintiffs of the Indonesian Kotopanjang dam lawsuit ●Arnold Evangrista, representative of an urban human rights organization in the Philippines Part II: Oppose Nuclear Power Export ●Patno Budi, Chairman of Walhi Bangka, from the planned construction site for nuclear power plants in Indonesia ●Masaaki Fukunaga, Center for South Asian Studies of Gifu Women's University, Japan, on the movement against the construction of Kudankulam nuclear power plants in India |
| ■2nd Appeal Court Hearing Held on Jun.22, 2012. Mr.Iswadi, a plaintiff, made a statement in the court  * In the 1st hearing on March 2, the chief judge requested plaintiffs to describe people's lives before the displacement to determine whether or not any damage was actually caused by the dam construction. He also asked them to explain how the local people decided to file a lawsuit in Japan. Iswadi testified in line with these requests for as long as about two hours. ■Plaintiffs submitted five new evidences to the court, including a photo report and videos that illustrate the people's affluent lives before the dam construction, an article written by a Japanese expert, and a number of maps made by the Dutch colonial government and the imperial Japanese army. ■As the statement and evidences were so clear and convincing, the representatives of defendants (the government, JICA, and TEPSCO) had no choice but to give up their cross examination, as opposed to their repeated dirty questions and maneuvers in the examination of witnesses at the Tokyo District Court in the past. |
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| Kotopanjang Dam Trial The First Lawsuit Challenging Infamous Japanese ODA  The Japanese government defines the basic objective of the ODA as the "promotion of open national interests." The "assistance" is not for the local people in a recipient country. Under the guise of development aid, the "national interests," namely the profits of large global companies, have driven this overseas version of useless public-works projects, most recently including the export of nuclear power plants, at the expense of local people. Support the lawsuit to stop the "assistance" for "national interests," or "assistance" against local residents. |
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"The Japanese government does not have any legal duty of care to ensure that people in an ODA recipient country do not have their rights and interests unfairly violated." (Tokyo High Court's Judgment on December 26, 2012)
After 10 years since the initial filing in 2002, the Tokyo High Court (17th Civil Affairs Section) made a judgment on December 26. On the day, Karim, the chairman of the Struggle Council for Kotopanjang Dam Victims, and Muhnur, a lawyer of the WALHI (Indonesian Environment Forum), appeared in court.
The judges simply ratified the 2009 unjust judgment by the Tokyo District Court, totally ignoring damage to local residents who had been forcibly displaced from their home.
(Photo: Muhnur, left, and Karim, right, at the press conference after the court's decision)