Taiwan’s Supreme Court has sent a decades-long toxic exposure case involving RCA workers back to the High Court for further review, delaying justice for thousands of survivors. Victims, many in their 70s and 80s, demand answers as they continue their fight for compensation.
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00:00Taiwan's Supreme Court has declined to rule on an infamous toxic exposure case that affected
00:06thousands of workers in the 90s, sending the case back to the High Court for further investigation.
00:12Workers' prisons have a deadline.
00:18Capital murder has no deadline.
00:22The reason is that the actual effect may not be clear enough.
00:25Will the request for this case be too slow?
00:29Is it not clear enough?
00:30Should the 2nd Provincial Court of Huawei continue to investigate?
00:34Former workers of Radio Corporation of America, or RCA, have been fighting for compensation
00:39for years, launching waves of lawsuits.
00:42That got a 2019 ruling that awarded over US$70 million to over a thousand plaintiffs, a record
00:49sum in Taiwan's legal history.
00:52But thousands more survivors, and affected families of those who've died from the toxins,
00:57are still waiting for their results, growing angry at how long the courts have stalled.
01:02We are still helping RCA to monopolize the rights of victims of drug abuse, and to ignore
01:11the rights of victims to live.
01:13We are already 70, 80 years old, and our health is being destroyed, our lives are being threatened.