Fukushima victims: homeless, desperate and angry

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http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Fukushima_victims:_homeless,_desperate_and_angry.html?cid=31371052

Oct 18, 2011 - 02:59

By Yoko Kubota

FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - At last, victims of Japan's nuclear crisis can claim compensation. And they are angry.

They are furious at the red tape they have to wade through just to receive basic help and in despair they still cannot get on with their lives seven months after the huge quake and tsunami triggered the world's worst nuclear disaster in 25 years.

Shouts fill a room at a temporary housing complex where seven officials, kneeling in their dark suits, face 70 or so tenants who were forced to abandon their homes near the Fukushima nuclear plant after some of its reactors went into meltdown after the March 11 quake struck. snip

After claimants have read a 160-page instruction manual, they then have to fill in a 60-page form and attach receipts for lodging, transportation and medical costs.

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1. My heart goes out to those people, and as for Tepco

If there is a Hell they WILL rot in it.

This is why we need OWS. Because the government allows corporations to do this.