Tag: 30th anniversary

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The death of Warren Anderson former CEO of Union Carbide who was held responsible for the death of thousands during what infamously incident came to be known as the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, died on September 29. The sudden death of the controversial figure puts a question mark on the film Bhopal: A Prayer For Rains, the…

Bhopal unending tragedy? Thirty years after the incident.

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There is much that is interesting about Bhopal. The period between 1890 and 1926, for example, when it was ruled by a succession of Begums, or its sobriquet of ‘city of lakes’. If Benaras is known for its exquisite silks, Bhopal was famous for its zari work. All that changed on the intervening night of December 2-3,…

Bhopal Gas tragedy: Victims to go on indefinite hunger fast from today

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New Delhi: Ahead of the 30th anniversary of Bhopal gas tragedy, the representatives of five organizations of survivors will today go on an indefinite fast at the Jantar Mantar where they will place demands to enhance compensation. The agitation would be organised under the banner of hundreds of survivors who would support the fast by…

Bhopal gas tragedy survivors gear up for indefinite fast

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Bhopal gas tragedy victims gathered at Neelam Park in Bhopal on Sunday in sizeable numbers before leaving for New Delhi to participate in a protest at Jantar Mantar on Monday to highlight their demand for greater compensation from Union Carbide or its successor company Dow Chemical. The five organisations leading the protest are also demanding…

Bhopal gas tragedy survivors begin indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar

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New Delhi: Five women representatives from Bhopal-based organisations along with thousands of survivors of the Union Carbide tragedy today began an indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi demanding enhancement in the compensation. The agitators called on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers to correct the errors of the…

Bhopal gas tragedy survivors to begin indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar from Monday

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BHOPAL : A group of survivors of Bhopal gas tragedy will start an indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi from Monday. Pressing their demand for additional compensation for all survivors and correction of data in the curative petition filed in the Supreme Court by the centre, a delegation of victims left Bhopal for…

Bhopal Gas Victims Begin Indefinite Fast in Delhi

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NEW DELHI: Victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy Monday began an indefinite fast in Delhi, demanding additional compensation for those affected and revision of the figures after 30 years of suffering. The Union Carbide disaster took place on the intervening night of Dec 2-3, 1984. Five women survivors began their fast at Jantar Mantar with…

“What About Swachh Bhopal?” – Chennaiites Ask Prime Minister

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in ICJB Press Releases, Statements, Letters

PRESS RELEASE: 10 November, 2014 CHENNAI — Even as five Bhopal gas victims began a waterless hunger strike in Delhi today, the Bhopal campaign’s Chennai supporters declared at a press conference that it was unfortunate that survivors of the worst industrial disaster are waiting for compensation, medical rehabilitation and justice even 30 years after the event. Chennai supporters…

Bhopal Survivors Begin Indefinite Fast in New Delhi – Demand Revision in Disaster Figures

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in ICJB Press Releases, Statements, Letters

November 10, 2014 Five women survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today began a fast in Jantar Mantar, New Delhi along with a thousand survivors and their children sitting in a dharna. Five Bhopal based organizations that are jointly leading the protest called on the Prime Minister and the Minister of Chemicals and…

Diane Wilson – Donor Appeal Letter 2014

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in ICJB Calls to Action

Dear Friends, 23 years ago, I heard a huge explosion outside my window in Seadrift, Texas. It was the Union Carbide factory. The explosion rattled windows twenty miles away and threw shrapnel the size of a car into the fields. It shook my house. One person was killed and 30 were injured–it could have been…

Bhopal – Three decades of Struggle: Gas survivors begin indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar

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The struggle for justice and adequate compensation continues even after three decades after the country’s first major industrial disaster New Delhi/Bhopal: Five women survivors of the ill-famous 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today began an indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar here along with a thousand survivors and their children sitting in a dharna, demanding…

Bhopal gas victims leave for Delhi protest

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Five survivors of the leak of poisonous gases from US multinational Union Carbide on 2-3 December, 1984 have decided to fast without water demanding additional compensation for all affected people from November 10. The five organizations leading the protest are also demanding revision of the figures of death and extent of injuries caused by the…

Hollywood ‘has let US off hook’ over Bhopal

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Survivors of the Bhopal disaster have criticised a new Hollywood film for misrepresenting the gas leak in 1984 that killed 15,000 people. The film Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain, starring Martin Sheen, was released in America on Friday to mark the 30th anniversary of the events at a US-owned pesticide factory in central India. The disaster,…

Bhopal gas victims to begin indefinite fast Monday

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New Delhi: Almost 30 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, several survivors of the world’s worst industrial disasters will Monday commence an indefinite fast here, demanding additional compensation for all survivors and correction of data in the curative petition filed in the Supreme Court by the central government.

Waterless Fast Journey Begins

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