Posted on 10/17/2005 9:09:11 AM PDT by Borges
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Top Finnish lawyer and human rights campaigner Matti Wuori, who was chairman of Greenpeace in the 1990s and advised South Africa's truth commission, has died.
Wuori died in Helsinki on Saturday of lung cancer, aged 60, his office said.
He was a member of the European Parliament's green group for five years from 1999 and combined serving as an MEP with campaigning for greater democracy in the EU.
A prominent environmental activist, Wuori was chairman of Greenpeace International from 1991 to 1993.
He was a special adviser from 1996 to 1998 to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was chaired by Nobel Peace Prize-winner Desmond Tutu to probe apartheid-era crimes.
Wuori, who spoke five languages and read 13, wrote several books, including a critical essay "Faust's Dream" and "The Deck Chairs of the Titanic."
He also played a cameo role as a lawyer in the Finnish comedy-drama "The Man Without a Past," which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002.
They should celebrate his life by leaving him in the forests for animals to forage upon.
If they dump him in the ocean is that considered pollution or fish food???
Another one Bites the Dust!
The ultimate in conservation....he now can recycle himself...
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