Tag: politicians
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May sense and grace prevail upon Jairam Ramesh
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh came to Bhopal on July 5 to meet representatives of the Bhopal survivors organisations. During his last visit to Bhopal on September 14, 2009, he had picked up a piece of hazardous waste stored in the abandoned Union Carbide factory and somewhat like Hrithik Roshan in a Hide & Seek biscuits…
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Prime Minister, did it hurt when they took out your eyes?
They must be gone because things that appal the rest of us, you seem not to see. You are blind to the agonies of 100,000 people who are still sick in Bhopal 25 years after Union Carbide’s gases leaked there. Blind to report after report recording the presence of pesticides and heavy metals in soil…
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Vultures not quite extinct in India
More than 2000 Bhopal survivors and their supporters will demonstrate in Delhi on October 26 to protest against those who are trying to grab a share of the undistributed compensation fund that the Supreme Court has ruled belongs solely to the survivors of Union Carbide’s 1984 gas disaster. At the head of the line with…
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While politicians posture, people die
For more than 20,000 people who suffered terrible injuries on the night of poison two decades ago, recent Supreme Court decisions about clean water and distribution of compensation monies come too late. Those twenty thousand are the dead. In their case neither was justice done, nor any humanity shown. The company, whose actions by any…
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Over 50 UK M.P.s support the ICJB
On the 24th March Halifax M.P. Alice Mahon filed Early Day Motion 933 in the UK parliament in support of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal’s efforts to make Dow and Union Carbide face up to their moral and legal responsibilities in Bhopal. The motion also applauds the ICJB’s efforts on the extradition of…