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Dharna day 5: Ram Vilas Paswan visits and meets Sana
Most of us spent the last night waiting for the wind to blow from somewhere. When that didn’t happen most of us spent the night counting stars and braving mosquitoes. Due to some miscommunication the caretaker at the St’ Columbus school had switched off electricity and so we had to sleep outside in open. Nonetheless,…
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Dharna day 4: Common folk make way for the Commonwealth
Day 4: 29-07-2010 Today was relatively a light day though Delhi heat and humidity were present in equal measure. We started the day as usual with a fresh round of slogans. Some 100 Bhopalis joined us today. Amongst these were Mamu and Naeem who had also participated very actively in the last padyatra (footmarch) in…
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Dharna day 3: Visits to schools and the Delhi High Court
The day began early in the morning, both today and yesterday, for the young women of Children Against Dow Carbide. Safreen, Yasmeen and Komal kickstarted their Delhi school outreach with their message about Bhopal, about their lives made unusual by virtue of growing up next to a toxic factory site which had seen the world’s…
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Ram Vilas Paswan to make statement on Bhopal on July 30 at Jantar Mantar
WHAT: Sri. Ram Vilas Paswan,Member Rajya Sabha to make a Statement on Bhopal. WHEN: 3.00 p.m. 30th July, 2010 WHERE: Jantar Mantar WHO: Sri. Ram Vilas Paswan- Member, Rajya Sabha, Former Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers Background: The June 7 verdict by the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal triggered a renewed interest in the plight…
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Dharna day 2: Rain and the art of the languriya
The rains came and went with irritating irregularity. We had moved from our first day’s stakeout to the other side of the road. Not only was the original site more slush prone, located as it was right next to a public toilet, but also because the site across the street had an additional tree. We…
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Dharna day 1: Camped in a hostile city, Bhopalis sing
BY A NUMBER OF VOLUNTEERS Coming to Delhi to knock at the doors to the conscience of the Central Government — the Prime Minister, in particular — is something that Bhopalis have done four times in the last five years. Each time supporters from India and abroad have responded with remarkable warmth. Each time, people…
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Bhopalis launch indefinite dharna in Delhi
More than 150 Bhopal survivors and people from water-affected areas began an indefinite dharna in Jantar Mantar that will last through the parliamentary session. The agitation intends to pressure the Central Government to revisit its recent decisions on issues of compensation, health care and rehabilitation, legal action against Union Carbide and Dow Chemical, and hazardous…
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Bhopal survivors will begin indefinite dharna in Delhi
The June 7 verdict by the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal triggered a renewed interest in the plight of the Bhopal survivors. Buckling under the public outrage generated by the media coverage of the disaster, the Prime Minister set up a Group of Ministers. The recommendations of the GoM fall way short of addressing the…
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Mr Justice Ahmadi does the decent thing
Mr Justice Ahmadi, the Supreme Court justice who controversially reduced criminal charges against the Indian accused in the Union Carbide Gas Tragedy trial, has resigned. Cynics may say that in doing so he hopes to escape further scrutiny of his actions in favour of Union Carbide Corporation, at the time an absconder from the same…
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JOIN THE SURVIVORS DHARNA IN DELHI, 26 JULY 2010
WHAT: Press Conference Launching Indefinite Dharna by Bhopal survivors to Remind the Parliament of Pending Issues in Bhopal WHEN: 4.30 p.m. 26 July, 2010 WHERE: Jantar Mantar WHO: More than 1000 Bhopal survivors, Members of Parliament and Eminent Persons Background: The June 7 verdict by the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal triggered a renewed interest…
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Anatomy of a terrible betrayal: the Bhopal tragedy
In a recent verdict, senior managers of Union Carbide were let off with a surprisingly light sentence for their role in the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal. Amid public outrage, the Indian government hastily set up a ministerial panel, but their recommendations are a betrayal of the victims and survivors of the gas leak for…
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Ministers wriggle to avoid becoming Union Carbide’s latest victims
Minister Jairam Ramesh, at a meeting yesterday with Bhopal survivors’ groups, said he was sorry that in July/August 2008 the government had secretly smuggled 40 tonnes of of highly dangerous waste out of the Union Carbide factory in the dead of night and taken it to an incinerator site in Pithampur, to be burned.
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Medical
A chronicle of the continuing medical catastrophe in Bhopal with supporting medical papers and reports, documents, press cuttings, articles and research studies. ––The immediate effects of gas exposure and Union Carbide’s response. –– Survivors’ first clinic and sodium thiosulphate scandal. –– Damaged births in the aftermath of the gas leak. — Refusal of UCC and…
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Environmental
In 1989 Union Carbide was desperate to get out of India. The lease for the factory site required that it be handed back in an acceptable environmental state. The corporation carried out some tests on soil and water which, horrifyingly for them, showed that both were heavily and lethally contaminated with chemicals known to cause…