Kin of Slain Protester Suing Caterpillar (Rachel Corrie)

[DoYouEverWonder]

March 15, 2005

SEATTLE -- The parents of a 23-year-old activist killed while trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home is suing Caterpillar Inc., the company that made the bulldozer that ran over her.

The federal lawsuit, which lawyers said would be filed here Tuesday, alleges that Caterpillar violated international and state law by providing specially designed bulldozers to Israeli Defense Forces that it knew would be used to demolish homes and endanger people.

Rachel Corrie, a student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, was standing in front of a home in a refugee camp in Rafah, near the Egyptian border, in March of 2003 when a bulldozer plowed over her.

"The brutal death of my daughter should never have happened," Corrie's mother, Cindy Corrie, said in a statement released by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a law firm handling the case. "We believe Caterpillar and the (Israeli Defense Forces) must be held accountable for their role in the attack."

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-protester-killed-lawsuit,0,5435381.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

[MrSlayer]

1. Stupid. Why should they pay for her idiocy?

Here's a clue, if you have a bulldozer bearing down on you, get the hell out of the way. How can Caterpiller possibly be liable for this?

[rooboy]

3. What a stupid thing to say. n/t

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Maybe you've never seen these pictures?

At the end of the article it states that the Israeli military classified Corrie's death as an accident. Sorry, this was no accident.

[brainshrub]

2. Rachel Corrie: Hero for human rights.

Not many of us have ever put our bodies on the line for human rights.

Rachel, wherever you are reading this... God bless you.

[Moderator]

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