Author: Admin
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Prime Minister, did it hurt when they took out your eyes?
They must be gone because things that appal the rest of us, you seem not to see. You are blind to the agonies of 100,000 people who are still sick in Bhopal 25 years after Union Carbide’s gases leaked there. Blind to report after report recording the presence of pesticides and heavy metals in soil…
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US child activists appeal to Warren Anderson
On June 14, 2010 members of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal and of Kids for a Better Future spoke to media and attempted to hand-delivered copies of a warrant and criminal charges against Union Carbide Corporation and against its former CEO, Warren Anderson (who remains in hiding), to the offices of their attorneys,…
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US Rep. Pallone comments on this week’s verdict
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 9, 2010 Contacts: Richard McGrath/Erin Bzymek (202) 225-4671 ________________________________________________________________________ Pallone on the Sentencing of Union Carbide Executives for Their Involvement in the Bhopal Disaster Washington, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ) Wednesday released the following statement on the court verdict and sentencing of Union Carbide executives responsible for the…
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Government protected Anderson: former CBI Director
INDUSTRY, IMPARTIALITY, INTEGRITY, says the badge of India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the national equivalent of America’s FBI. Not according to its former Joint Director B. R. Lall, who was the senior officer in charge of the Bhopal investigation from April 1994 to July 1995. Lall, clearly nettled by criticisms that his organisation neglected…
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Media groundswell on denial of justice in Bhopal
Major Media coverage of Bhopal Verdict and Denial of Justice Case against Warren Anderson is not over, says Moily The Hindu – New Delhi: The former Union Carbide chairman, Warren Anderson, can still be tried in the Bhopal gas tragedy case if he is brought to India, as he is a “proclaimed offender,” Union Law…
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Union Carbide US was the real criminal
The people most responsible for the disaster in Bhopal were not in the courtroom yesterday when eight Indian employees of Union Carbide India Limited were found guilty of criminal negligence. Union Carbide Corporation (US), its ex-Chairman Warren Anderson, and Union Carbide Eastern, have been refusing since 1992 to obey the summons of the court and answer…
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Talking points: why justice cannot prevail
According to Eveready Industries, the successor to Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL), there was never any danger of a judgement against the company, consequently no need to provide financially for that eventuality. Whence comes this overweening confidence? “Trial proceedings before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhopal, on the modified charges framed under the directions of the…
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Incompetent bungled prosecution: PM is to blame
At a press conference today four organizations of survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal condemned the Indian government’s “criminal negligence” in the prosecution of those accused of responsibility for the world’s worst corporate massacre. They said that as the Minister in charge of the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Prime Minister…
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A long road: the 26 year timeline of the criminal case
On the night of 2/3 December 1984, the inhabitants of the city of Bhopal became victims of the world’s worst industrial disaster. 40 tonnes of methyl iscocyanate (MIC – a highly volatile toxic chemical) stored at the pesticide plant owned by Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL), a subsidiary of Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), USA –…
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Doubts ahead of Bhopal gas verdict
RASHEED KIDWAI, CALCUTTA TELEGRAPH Bhopal, June 5: The 23-year-old criminal trial of the Bhopal gas tragedy will see the verdict delivered on Monday, but survivors fear the “glaring omissions” by prosecuting agency CBI may deny them justice. Several Indian officials of Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) will be in court on June 7 as the…
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Key source documents in the unheard case against UCC
The people most responsible for the disaster in Bhopal will not be in the courtroom when the verdict against the Indian defendants is announced. Union Carbide Corporation and its ex-Chairman Warren Anderson, and Union Carbide Eastern, have refused since 1992 to obey the summons of the court and answer charges of culpable homicide. The evidence…
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Dow spent $2m on lobbying in 1st quarter of 2010
The Dow Chemical Co. spent $2 million in the first quarter to lobby Congress and several federal agencies on issues ranging energy efficiency to health reform, according to a recent disclosure report. The chemical manufacturer’s total lobbying cost was about 15.6 percent more than the $1.74 million it spent in the same quarter a year…
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Voices from Bhopal: Review of Survivors’ Movement Study
Review of Bhopal Survivors’ Movement Study (2009) Bhopal survivors speak: emergent voices from a people’s movement. Edinburgh: Word Power Books. 216p. illus. Social movements are complex and messy, riven with tactical and strategic disagreements and divisions, often consumed with internal politics, point-scoring and personality clashes at the cost of joint –or sometimes any- action. Anyone…
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Henna for Bhopal at University of Washington
You are invited to view Arvind & Janani’s photo album: Henna for Bhopal Raghav Kaushik writes: Here are the photos from the booth we held at the UW street fair yesterday and the day before. We have raised a little more than $800. If we include matching contributions, it will in my estimate add around…
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The Guardian: Survivors critical of Martin Sheen film
A film starring top Hollywood actors that dramatises the Bhopal gas disaster has been criticised by campaigners and participants in the tragedy for misrepresenting individuals and the facts. Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain is due for release this autumn with Mischa Barton and Martin Sheen in leading roles. Shot largely in India, it portrays the…