Category: Uncategorized

Mary Shaw, Philadelphia Freedom Watch, December 3, 2006 Mary Shaw is a Philadelphia-based writer and activist, with a focus on human rights and social justice. She currently serves as Philadelphia Area Coordinator for Amnesty International. Today, December 3, marks the 22nd anniversary of a catastrophic explosion from a gas leak at a Union Carbine pesticide…

Subodh Varma, Times of India, December 3, 2006 NEW DELHI: Twenty-two years since the leak of a deadly gas from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal killed over 15,000 people, relatives of the victims and over 5 lakh survivors are still battling for compensation. And it isn’t just the hapless victims who have been kept…

Indo-Asian News Service, December 3, 2006 Bhopal, Dec 3 (IANS) Survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy Sunday observed the 22nd anniversary of the lethal leakage that killed thousands of people. Several organisations, including the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan (BGPMUS), held a public meeting at the Yadgare Shahjahani Park and took a pledge…

The Axis of Evel Knieval, December 3, 2006 During the early morning hours of 3 December 1984, a tank failure at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, spewed twenty-seven tons deadly methyl isocyanate (MIC) fumes into the air, killing thousands within a few hours and leaving hundreds of thousands more with debilitating ailments, including…

GV Krishnan, My Mysore, December 3, 2006 December 2-3 night has significance for my family. We are Bhopal survivors. I read in the papers that people in Bhopal observed the 22nd anniversary of the gas tragedy with a silent procession by the gas victims. Even after two decades since the tragedy the gas victims are…

AID INDIA, BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, DECEMBER 2, 2006 It was a cold, wintry Saturday morning at Sample Gates, the entrance to Indiana University, brightened by the sunshine and the enthusiastic faces of volunteers from AID. Members started trickling in by 11AM and were initially outnumbered by the 3 (mock) corpses Suresh had prepared as props. We…

INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE IN BHOPAL, DECEMBER 2, 2OO6 Read the press statement THE STORY IN PICTURES

Sambhavna Trust, Bhopal, December 2, 2006 THE STORY IN PICTURES

Cuddalore, December 3, 2006 We do not have any further details, but on behalf of everyone in the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal, would like to express our deepest sorrow at this awful news, and extend our sympathy to the family and friends of the young man who lost his life so tragically in…

HEMENDER SHARMA, CNN-IBN, DECEMBER 3, 2006 PAIN CONTINUES: Both of Uzma’s kidneys have failed and her family cannot afford to continue her treatment. Watch video. Bhopal Facts Get the facts on the Bhopal Tragedy. Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): It has been 22 years since the Bhopal Gas tragedy occurred, but the lives of those who have…

LALIT SHASTRI, THE HINDU, DECEMBER 3, 2006 It is the Government’s duty to provide safe drinking water, they say “Cancel all-religion prayer meet” Extradition of Anderson demanded GANDHIGIRI STYLE: Victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy take out a march to the Raj Bhavan on Saturday, demanding among other things clean drinking water and better medical…

THE HINDU, NEW YORK, DECEMBER 3, 2006 New York, Dec. 3 (PTI): Scores of campaigners seeking justice for victims of the 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy, one of the world’s worst industrial catastrophe, held demonstrations in pouring rain near the Indian Consulate here demanding that Dow Chemical take responsibility for clearing up the disaster site and…

BHOPAL CENTRAL CHRONICLE, DECEMBER 3, 2006 Bhopal, Dec 2: The Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan has paid tributes to the martyrs of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy on the eve of its 22nd anniversary. Recalling the gravity of the disaster, which played a havoc on the intervening night of December 2 and 3 in 1984, Chouhan…

Indo Asian News Service, December 2, 2006 Bhopal, Dec 2 (IANS) Hundreds of victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy took out a torchlight rally here Saturday night demanding adequate relief and rehabilitation for the survivors of the lethal leakage that killed thousands of people. The participants of the rally, taken out on the eve…

BHOPAL CENTRAL CHRONICLE, DECEMBER 2, 2006 Bhopal, Dec 2: ”We do not have any sensational news for you, we have the sorrow and suffering of the Gas Tragedy victims and the documents linked with a long battle for justice. But is anyone still interested about those affected by the world’s worst industrial disaster?” When social…