Tag: history
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Sign the Petition to Extradite former Chairman of Union Carbide Corporation, Warren Anderson for his crimes in Bhopal
July 15 2013 Dear Sisters and Brothers of USA, We, the survivors of the world’s worst industrial disaster in Bhopal ask your help in extraditing Warren Anderson, former Chairman of Union Carbide Corporation who has jumped bail and refuses to face criminal charges related to thousands of deaths. SIGN THIS PETITION http://wh.gov/l3cJi You need to…
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Police fire on, stone and beat Bhopal survivors
One critical, many arrested in Rail Roko, eyewitnesses speak of people covered in blood on 27th anniversary of gas disaster Keep visiting this site for the latest news as we get it. This post is still being written as you are reading it. Please refresh your browser The “rail roko/stop the trains” protest in Bhopal…
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Gas Victims given substandard drugs from last 27 years
Corruption Kills: Bhopal Gas Victims Demand Strong Jan Lokpal Bill Press Statement 8-August-2011 At a press conference today, five organizations working with survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster announced their action plans as part of the “India Against Corruption” campaign. They will be holding a demonstration at the Union Carbide factory tomorrow at noon…
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India’s most Secret Incinerator is here
18-July-2011 http://www.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=Ws180711India.asp# The Madhya Pradesh high court has ordered that the DRDE dispose off toxic waste from union carbide’s bhopal plant. Why the secrecy? INDIA MAY have sent rockets into space. But as a nation, we are not yet potty trained. With more than six decades of industrialisation behind us, one would think that India would…
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Political
By June 2005 Babulal Gaur, then Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, had for a year been ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to provide safe drinking water for communities whose wells were being poisoned by chemicals leaking from the derelict Carbide plant. The reason: lack of funds. But this did not stop him announcing plans to…
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Survivors
“Bhopal isn’t only about charred lungs, poisoned kidneys and deformed foetuses. It’s also about corporate crime, multinational skulduggery, injustice, dirty deals, medical malpractice, corruption, callousness and contempt for the poor. Nothing else explains why the victims’ average compensation was just Rs 25,000—for a lifetime of misery. Yet the victims haven’t given up. Their struggle for…
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Charnel Makers: Union Carbide’s disregard for safety nauseates still
OUTLOOK INDIA, July 5, 2010. Union Carbide’s brazen, criminal disregard for safety nauseates still. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on his way back from the recent G-20 summit in Toronto, righteously declared his desire to push for a “more favourable” US attitude to extradite former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson. But as his government begins to…
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Dow’s attempt to deceive NDTV: notes for editors
NDTV (New Delhi Television) one of India’s prime news channels, yesterday received a letter from Dow spokesman Scott Wheeler claiming that the case to hold Dow responsible for cleaning up Bhopal had been concocted by “activists”. “There are some,” Wheeler wrote, “who continue to try to affix responsibility for the Bhopal tragedy to Dow, but…
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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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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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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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US Congressmen tell Dow to clean up Bhopal
Ranjit Devraj, IPS, June 18, 2009 A campaign in the United States led by two girl victims from Bhopal, highlighting lingering toxicity left behind by the 1984 gas disaster in their city, has paid off with a group of 27 members of the U.S. Congress asking Dow Chemicals to clean up the site. Sarita and…
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Stop! Take a deep breath
Latha Jishnu, Business Standard, December 06, 2008 India’s worst terrorist attack occurred not in Mumbai last month, but in Bhopal 24 years ago – and it’s the kind of carnage that goes unheeded. What determines the gravity and enormity of an outrage? Is it the number of casualties? Is it the brutality with which the…