By: Yasmin Coonjah,
on 9/13/2016
The contemporary world features more than twenty thousand international NGOs in almost every field of human activity, including humanitarian assistance, environmental protection, human rights promotion, and technical standardization, amongst numerous other issues
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By: Anne Ishii,
on 12/10/2008
Two Greenpeace activists in Japan tried to expose a whale meat scandal subsidized by the government, and were arrested for their efforts.
From The Japan Times:
“According to Greenpeace, whalers aboard the ship have long had the right to choice cuts from the government- subsidized whaling catch, which they sell on the black market, bypassing virtually all controls. “According to our informants, some men were taking up to 20 or 30 boxes of the high-value ‘uneso’ whale meat, with each box worth up to $3,000,” says the group’s international spokesman, Dave Walsh. “That means they were skimming huge sums of money from a taxpayer-funded program. It’s a scandal that needs to be investigated.”
Sato and Suzuki took these allegations to journalists at a press conference that won worldwide attention, before handing the meat over to the police in May and demanding an investigation. The authorities responded by ignoring the claims against the Nisshin Maru and its operator Kyodo Senpaku, and launching a ferocious campaign against Greenpeace.
A total of 38 policemen were reportedly assigned from Aomori to investigate the “theft” case, plus a large squad of cops and special detectives from Tokyo, who rejected Sato and Suzuki’s argument that the meat was borrowed to prove a point, not stolen.”
