"There are few more glaring cases of the developed world abusing the developing world and getting away with murder than Union Carbide's rape of Bhopal."
THE INDEPENDENT 29 August 2002		   "No certainty as to where Union Carbide ends and nature begins"
CHANNEL 4 TV NEWS, JON SNOW'S REPORT ON BIRTH DEFECTS IN BHOPAL, 1 August 2002

"Shortly after the incident, the Wall Street Journal's Barry Neuman wrote that Indians don't expect compensation for lives lost in the Bhopal poisonous gas leak because "the certainty of reincarnation satisfies the Hindus; for the Muslims, what God wills, God wills."
ABC NEWS 4 September 2002 		  "The state of the Union Carbide plant is a disgrace. When the company finally left the city in 1999, it left behind around 5,000 tonnes of process and waste chemicals - toxins that have leached into the soil and water in and around the factory."
THE GUARDIAN 21 September 2002

Media Coverage - 1968 to end 2001

This is an incomplete but constantly growing list of news items about Bhopal and Bhopal-related issues. Newest stories are listed first. Scroll down for older stories. If you know of articles and reports we have missed - and there are dozens - please point us to the urls. These are mainly links to media web pages. Some reports may be moved to archived elsewhere in the future. Please report any dead links here.

Our collection now reaches back to within months of the original gas leak. See Houston Chronicle archive (coming soon).

Other Dow-Carbide related stories are here (or click the graphic at right).

 

2001 - December

30 December - People's Democracy "The Afflicted Still suffer, Self-Seekers Make Merry)

21 December - Frontline "Chemical Disasters: From Bhopal to Toulouse"

15 December - The Lancet - "Smart cards for Bhopal gas victims cause controversy"

6 December - Corpwatch "Bhopal's Legacy"

5 December - PANUPS - "17 Years After the Bhopal Tragedy, Union Carbide Continues to Evade Responsibility"

4 December - The Hindu "Learn lessons from Bhopal gas tragedy"

4 December - The Guardian "City Diary"

4 December - Arab News, Saudia Arabia "Bhopal mourns gas victims"

2001 - November

29 November - Corpwatch "Bhopal Activists Declare Victory in US Courts"

28 November - The Guardian "The hierarchy of death"

2001 - October

29 October - El Mundo "De Bhopal a Nueva York"

2001 - September

29 September - The Guardian "The algebra of infinite justice" by Arundhati Roy

26 September - Wanadoo "Toulouse, Bhopal en France - Déclaration du Président du MNLE"

17 September - Cyberpresse "Ne jamais oublier Bhopal"

17 September - The Guardian "Bhopal victims say cash is missing"

15 September - Indian Express "No one saw Arjun Singh in Bhopal on Dec 2: Lapierre"

7 September - The Guardian "Oliver Stone tackles Indian gas leak disaster"

6 September - BBC News "French author highlights Bhopal victims"

3 September - The Week "Bhopal--a cause célèbre"

2001 - August

30 August - Los Angeles Times "Industrial Disaster Victims Still Battle Health Effects 17 Years Later"

2001 - July

17 July - The Guardian "Let the people rule the world" George Monbiot writes about the G8

2001 - May

23 May - CBS News "Taliban: Hindu Labels 'Not Discrimination'" (According to CBS News's own archives, this was their last mention of Bhopal and it isn't about the gas tragedy, but about a Hindu demonstration against the Taliban. Note: this was pre-Sept 11)

2001 - March

29 March

23 March - Sarnia Observer "Thousands take shelter following Dow leak"

2 March - Times of India "Bhopal gas victims stage rally in Mumbai"

2000

12 December - "Indian Government's last and final opportunity to render justice to Bhopal victims" From our own archives, originally filched from indiaserver.com.

10 December - The Tribune, Chandigarh Editorial: "Bhopal Gas Disaster - 16 long years of suffering"

2 December - The Lancet "Has the world forgotten Bhopal?"

22 November - Outlook India "Power Politics: the Reincarnation of Rumpelstiltskin" by Arundhati Roy

4 September - Rediff.Com "Dominique Lapierre reminds the world of Bhopal"

16 August - La Solidarietà di Viaggiatori On Line - Mezzanotte e cinque a Bhopal (Italian, review of Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro's book "Five Past Midnight in Bhopal)

2 August - AFP, reported by News Max "Police Widen Nerve Gas Deaths Probe" Reference this story in our coverage of U.S. Military invasions of Bhopal.Net.

19 July - Earth Times News Service - "Lawsuits filed in New York, renews attention to Bhopal disaster in India"

12 July - CNN - "Feds oppose spilling chemical disaster info on the Net"

8 June - Nature - "The distant grass is always greener"

7 June - The Odyssey "What to Do in the Aftermath: Sambhavna Trust "

7 June - The Odyssey "Prevent Armageddon, Inc.: MAD at a Merger between Dow and Union Carbide "

7 June - The Odyssey "The Odyssey Live Chats from India! " (Teenagers from Bhopal chat over the internet to teenagers in the USA)

17 May - CNN - "Expressions of Bhopal: Snapshots of tragedy"

29 April - NBC "15 years later, Bhopal back in the courts"

12 March - The Guardian "Hunt on for missing gas blast boss"

7 March - New York Times "Union Carbide CEO Fugitive in Bhopal Suit"

14 February - TIME Magazine "A Deafening Silence"

12 January - The Guardian "Court told design flaws led to Bhopal leak"

8 January - New Scientist "Class Act"

1999

9 December - Seattle Post Intelligencer - "Fifteen Years After Bhopal, Lessons Learned But Not Exported

6 December - The Guardian "The buck stops somewhere else"

3 December - BBC News "Bhopal marks 15th anniversary"

2 December - Environment News Service "U.S. At Risk of Bhopal-Scale Chemical Accident"

30 November - World Trade Magazine "Avoiding overseas crises" (How to PR your way out of killing 20,000 people)

24 November - The Village Voice "Attack of the Killer Kapitalists"

16 November - Rediff-on-the-Net "Bhopal victims sue Union Carbide"

31 August - Asiaweek "In the name of profit" ("Kishor ascribes the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, which killed some 5,000 people, to the catastrophic zigzag shape of the Union Carbide plot") Well, never heard that one before, but spose it's about as credible as Carbide's "sabotage" theory.

31 August - Asiaweek "Death in slow motion" (Western firms dumping toxic waste in India)

3 July - New Scientist "Pure Nonsense"

5 April - The Progressive Review, Princeton "The Dow Nightmare"

1998

September - Wall Street Journal " New Food-Quality Act Has Pesticide Makers Doing Human Testing Firms Say Tougher Standards Force Them to Prove Safety of Toxic Chemicals" Dow testing chlorpyrifos on humans (chlorpyrifos = Dursban/Lorsban, now banned in the USA but still on sale in India), Bayer testing Azinphos-methyl, both highly dangerous organophosphates.

1997

13 December - New Scientist "Mission Earth"

29 March - New Scientist "Will pennypinching risk runaway reactions? "

6 March - Our Planet Magazine "Bhopal blinded us all"

1996

14 December - New Scientist "Bad medicine deepens Bhopal's misery "

5 October - New Scientist "Review : Polluters are revolting "

27 January - New Scientist "Industry's disaster"

1995

16 December - New Scientist "Court slams 'miserly' attitude to Bhopal victims "

9 December - New Scientist "Everyday poisons take their toll in Third World "

1994

9 December - National Public Radio "Living on Earth" Transcript of radio programme including interviews with Dr Misra who treated victims immediately after the gas leak, plus survivors talking about their experiences and the situation ten years on.

5 February - New Scientist "Bhopal claims 'are genuine' "

1993

11 December - New Scientist "Disaster hotline will help to prevent more Bhopals "

1 May - New Scientist "Union Carbide officials face prosecution " (This is how long Warren Anderson and Union Carbide Corporation have been absconding.)

1992

6 June - New Scientist "Industrial growth: The root of the problem?"

1991

14 December - New Scientist "Chemical 'taxi' spread Bhopal toxin "

26 October - New Scientist "Bhopal - still a case to answer"

12 October - New Scientist "Court ruling brings Bhopal prosecution closer "

10 August - New Scientist "California suffers its worst chemical spill"

2 February - New Scientist "Bhopal cleanup "

12 January - New Scientist "Judges may free India to renew battle over Bhopal "

1990

24 November - New Scientist "Bhopal polluters accused of hypocrisy"

28 February - RACHEL'S Environment & Health Monitor "From Bhopal with love" Union Carbide accuses environmentalists of being tied to the Communist Party. A classic piece for Bhopal watchers.

1989

12 August - New Scientist "A case study of a disaster / Review of 'Acceptable Risk?'"

22 April - New Scientist "Reactor lowers the hazards of chemical plants "

1988

15 October - Multinational Monitor "Union Carbide" (Carbide's sordid history, pre- and post-Bhopal)

1968

5 January - Time Magazine "Protesting napalm" Also in Business Week, 10 Feb 1969, and the story was covered in Pravda under the headline, "Out the Back Window, Mr. Jones." The story of how Dow Chemical came to be involved in making napalm for the US government during the Vietnam War. Student protests and Dow's response.