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Selon le quotidien La Tercera
Œil pour œil, dent pour dent… oreille pour oreille?
En colère, le maire de l’île de Pâques a souhaité, jeudi, qu’un touriste qui est accusé d’avoir vandalisé une des célèbres statues de l’île soit puni là par où il a péché, et qu’on lui tranche une oreille.
Marko Kulju, un jeune homme Finlandais de 26 ans, est accusé d’avoir brisé l’oreille d’une statue, dimanche. Il est actuellement confiné à ne pas quitté l’île de Pâques .
Hier, dans une lettre ouverte, Kulju exprimé des remords de l’action engagée et a présenté ses excuses aux autorités et habitants de la lointaine possession chilienne.
Le maire Pedro Edmunds Paoa a déclarer être en faveur d’une justice «œil pour œil, dent pour dent», et d’ajouter qu’on devrait trancher une oreille de l’accusé en guise de punition.
Le maire de l’île de Pâques, a fait valoir que les touristes finlandais qui coupe l’oreille d’un moai est de porter atteinte à sa mémoire et doit subir la même peine.
La statue endommagée est une des 400 qui se retrouvent sur l’île et qui représentent les ancêtres de ses résidants actuels. Réf: La Tercera en espagnol
Le maire fait partie de la communauté d’origine locale de Rapa Nui.
Depuis 1995, le patrimoine exceptionnel de l’île est protégé et inscrit au Patrimoine Mondial de l’Humanité par l’UNESCO.
Des parcs ou réserves naturelles, parfois surveillés, enserrent les zones des vestiges. La communauté Rapanui veille jalousement sur les traces de son histoire et constitue un pouvoir parallèle au gouvernement officiel chilien.
L’île de Pâques comptait 3 304 habitants en 2002 est une île isolée dans le sud-est de l’Océan Pacifique, particulièrement connue pour ses statues monumentales, les Moaïs et son unique écriture océanienne, le rongorongo Réf: Wikipédia
Now that you nailed down the name. There were more column meters published on the death of Princess Diana than there were on the invasion at Normandy. Soon there will be more column meters on this earlobe of the moai statute (1 out of 400-1000, the hungry media does not even know the number) than there are columns on the massive Buddha statutes annihilated by the Taleban regime.
This countryman of mine has been lynched high. Ear off. 7 years in a South American prison. After this publicity, even a day in a South American jail would kill him.
And as I read the actual story behind the News from Congoo to Australia, it seems to me that he’s not proven to break it by purpose.
A high-octan, adrenaline addict adventurer climbs on a top of a high and sacred monument. Bad enough. The Finn brokes the ear of this fragile lava type of stone. Worse enough. My countryman tries to hide it and runs away. Worst enough. (OK, Oll Korrect, he confessed what happened later on.) But this does not prove him a thief though the whole globe would shout and shoot so!
It was the Easter week at the Easter Island. The same week the Finnish leaders of the Botnia pulp factory at the border river between Uruguay and Argentine were on trial in a South American court for « Planned damage ». After Finnish flags had been burnt in the streets of Argentine for 3 years for this biggest investment ever to the poor country of Uruguay. We have a classical scape goat and red herring here, it appears to me. Not every tattood boxer is suffering from Dementia pugilistica. In Finland we enjoy extreme sports, but the aim was not to vandalize it appears to me. So now we know we should prefer Tibet over the highest 22-meter Moai for climbing. That I want to apologize.
An outrageous mob wanting to lynch a man is an old scene, only the internet phenomenon is new. A raging mob behaves irrationally when it goes out to lynch. In AOL there are already over 3200 News comments on this (versus 5500 on the US presidential election campaign), 314000 votes, 52% would sentence him to de facto death in South American jail, without knowing whether it was an alleged theft or an accident from climbing. If it bleads, it leads.
Few FACTS about Finland
Finland has been the least corrupt country in the world in the transparency international throughout the 3rd millennium. In the OECD’s international assessment of student performance, PISA, Finland has consistently been among the highest scorers worldwide; in 2003, Finnish 15-year-olds came first in reading literacy, science, and mathematics; and second in problem solving, worldwide. The World Economic Forum ranks Finland’s tertiary education #1 in the world. In 1906, Finland became the first European nation (and one of the first in the world) to grant women the right to vote and run for parliament. Finland’s most famous company is Nokia, the world’s largest producer of mobile phones. Just 30 years ago, Nokia company was selling mainly tiers and rubber boots.The most famous Finnish person alive today is Linus Torvalds, who originated (and still maintains) Linux, the shareware free computer operating system. It has been embraced especially in the developing countries, instead of the commercial Microsoft Windows.
Pauli Ojala
Finland
PS. Another viewpoint on the hang-up party:
http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Easter-island-broken-ear-mob-lynch.htm
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