Category: History
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The Carbide Plant that Would Go On To Gas An Entire City Could Never Have been Built If It Weren’t For Kissinger
The Indians need,” Nixon said to Kissinger, as India hosted millions of refugees from East Pakistan, “what they need really is a—” “They’re such bastards,” Kissinger spat. “A mass famine. But they aren’t going to get that. We’re going to feed them—a new kind of wheat.”
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What Happened in Bhopal?
On December 3rd, 1984, in the middle of the night, thousands of people were gassed to death because of a catastrophic chemical leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. More than 150,000 people were left severely disabled, and 22,000 people have since died of their injuries. For these reasons the Bhopal gas disaster is widely acknowledged as the WORLD’S WORST-EVER INDUSTRIAL DISASTER. What Leaked and…