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  • A History of the Medical Disaster, Viewed Through Newspaper Clippings

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    News Clippings – 1984-1990: The Unfolding Medical Disaster New Clippings – 1991-1996: The Medical Crisis Continues News Clippings – 1997-2004: The Medical Crisis Continues List of Medical Headlines 1984-2004 Introduction This chronicle of the ongoing medical disaster in Bhopal is taken from newspaper clippings from local, national and some international newspapers, kept at the Sambhavna Trust…

  • Bhopal faces risk of ‘poisoning’: BBC

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    BY PAUL VICKERS, BBC Thousand of Indians around Bhopal remain at risk of poisoning 20 years after a major disaster in the city, an investigation by the BBC has revealed. Four thousand people died after a gas leak at a pesticide factory owned by US company Union Carbide in 1984. Union Carbide India Limited was…

  • Pallone slams Dow in Congress

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    Congressman Frank Pallone Jr or New Jersey has introduced a bill #503 to the US House of Representatives, calling for Congress to recognise the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster and express commitment to work with the Government of India and others to ensure that Union Carbide provides environmental and medical rehabilitation of the affected…

  • Bhopal gas victims still gasping for breath

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    TIMES OF INDIA [MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2004 02:35:53 AM] NEW DELHI: On a cold wintry night of December 2-3, 15,000 people were killed in Bhopal when 41 tonnes of Methyl Isocyanate, a poisonous gas leaked from one of the tanks of Union Carbide Corporation’s plant. An initial survey on the after-effects of the gas leak…

  • US Government Shields Anderson

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    Though we at bhopal.net can’t claim to have encountered it personally, there apparently exists a widely held belief that all stand equal before the law. On March 2nd, US Attorney General John Ashcroft declared the US government to be a guarantor of this equality. “It is the honor, the duty, and responsibility of the United…

  • Ten years, zero convictions

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    The criminal case that is Bhopal’s second, seemingly eternal disaster SOMEBODY was criminally responsible for the Bhopal gas leak of December 1984, somebody should have been punished. Nothing of the sort happened. Instead the case lies trapped in the labyrinth called the Indian legal system. The CBI filed the chargesheet before the chief judicial magistrate…

  • The invisible war waged against us all

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    “The (chemical) industry has avoided any serious restrictions on its chemicals for nearly twenty years. During this time lapse, we have continued to learn more about the dark side of the chemical revolution. We have learned that today we all carry the chemical industry’s toxic products in our bodies. Every man, women and child in…

  • “Bhopal Lives” – Personal Accounts of the Disaster and its Aftermath

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    Next Tuesday, December 3, the International Medical Commission-Bhopal (IMCB) will release its final report on the current medical, social, and economic status of the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster, a leak of toxic gas that claimed around 10,000 lives in Bhopal, India, 12 years ago. The report, the culmination of a three-year study by…