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Bhopal: An Ongoing Tragedy, 25 years later
This week was the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster. And, 25 years later, the disaster continues.
On Dec. 2nd and 3rd, 1984, the criminal negligence killed some 20,000 people and left over 100,000 affected. And corporate America, responsible for this disaster, has done almost nothing to clean up the mess and take responsibility in the past 25 years.
From an article on BBC News this last week:
In Bhopal no-one uses the term "accident" to describe the calamity that took place here in the early hours of 3 December 1984.
For "accident" implies blamelessness. And in Bhopal the hunger for justice among those who suffered seems undiminished.
Those who survived remember the terrible randomness of it.
Eyewitnesses saw a dense cloud of poisonous gas settle on the slum areas that crowded the Union Carbide pesticide plant...
The Chingari Rehabilitation Centre is a small charitable organisation - a drop-in day centre for children born with severe disabilities, whose parents were exposed to the gas.
"These are the second generation affected," says Tarun Thomas, who runs Chingari. read more »



