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Article: VOA NEWS: ENVIRONMENTALISTS BLAST IVORIAN TOXIC WASTE COURT CASE

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October 23, 2008
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The Voice of America issued the following story:

By Scott Bobb

A court in the Ivory Coast has sentenced two men to prison terms for dumping toxic waste that killed 17 people two years ago in Abidjan. But activists are criticizing the case because the trading company that transported the waste was not prosecuted. VOA's Scott Bobb reports from our bureau in Johannesburg.

Environmental activists are expressing satisfaction over the sentences handed down in the Ivorian toxic waste case. But they say justice has not been rendered because the Trafigura company that chartered the ship carrying the waste was not prosecuted and refused even to appear as a witness.

Late Wednesday, an Ivorian court ...

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