Victims Sue Thailand, U.S., Accor Over Tsunami

[SillyGoose]

VIENNA (Reuters) - U.S. and Austrian lawyers have filed a lawsuit demanding Thailand, U.S. forecasters and the French Accor group answer accusations they failed in a duty to warn populations hit by December's Tsunami disaster, a lawyer said Monday.

The lawsuit was filed Friday at a New York district court on behalf of tsunami victims by lawyers including U.S. attorney Edward Fagan, internationally renowned for 1990s lawsuits against Swiss banks over Holocaust-era accounts. It demanded an account of their actions on Dec. 26.
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The U.S. and Austrian lawyers filed the lawsuit on behalf of around 60 named plaintiffs from Austria, Germany, France, Netherlands and elsewhere. Podovsovnik said they were also acting on behalf of at least 40 more not named.

The lawsuit suggests the Thai government and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which operates a Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii, failed to issue the requisite warnings.
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http://reuters.myway.com/article/20050307/2005-03-07T142019Z_01_L07154906_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-TSUNAMI-LAWSUIT-DC.html
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[Dcitizen]

1. Feel sorry for victims' families.

It's not a myth any more. Tsunami ran at jet speed, and no place on earth are safe heaven forever. The earth is just like a cracked egg plus millions of falling sky rocks; Noah's ark is still visible at Turkey's mountains; Mu and Atlantic continents are not found on the map; fossils of tropical elephants, water buffalo laid just under few feet of ash in Midwest grass land plantation...