23 years of trauma

We had a presentation on Bhopal gas tragedy today, and these are the excerpts of the meeting. THough I did not mention the details properly, people should certainly google the details...The presenation was by one of the survivors and an NGo activtist...Below are the details:

They are taken into Union carbide

There are bodies in tanks, fields etc.

16th Dec Bhopal is emptied, whereas the leakage happened on 2nd Dec

All the colonies are left with no people.
We spent our lives on alms....Either the parents are gone or the children are gone forever...
This is all what Union carbide could give us...
All those [ep[;e who are alive are leading life on deadly terms,
Many children are uneducated, unemployed.
Dow chemicals should own the responsibility of the status of Bhopal.
It wants to spread its fangs across multiple cities...
For the past 23 years, 25-30000 people have been suffering becuase all the localities are poisoned. Their water, air, and every aspect of those localities in those villages are poisoned.
Every employee of UC are told not ro reveal anything thats being manufactured in the company.
We've been fighting for the past 23 years, and we are old now, and we need your support to ensure that the voice is heard across all the corners.
People are dying, not getting married because everyone suspects that all the people are poisoned.
I request you to raise your voice and make Dow chemicals responsible for Bhopal.

There is no proper water available in Bhopal.
My son is 27 years old, but he is not in a position to earn his livehood.
Lets ensure that no mother cries at the status of her child because of companies like DC.
It wants to get into nandigram, Pune and they may as well turn into another Bhopal.
Let him take his poison along with him to his country.

Dow chemicals took over UC in 2001 but is playing double game in Bhopal.


Q & A

We should not stop at blaming Dow, Government should take care and ensure that the delivery is properly made.
Government was not even ready to accept that Isocyanide got leaked because it would question their position.

UC alone knew about antidote. People came inJanuary and started a clinic and were being given Sodium thiosulphate.
Great improvement could be observed. But the clinic was raided and the doctors arrested. It was raided because the anti dote process that the poison is in blood streams, and it would increase the liability of the company. The anti-dote is known to Dow and carnegie Mellon university but they do not reveal it saying it is a trade secret. What bigger than a human life can a trade secret be?

People are requested to sign a petition stopping Dow to sponsor any conferences.

Government had a weird plan to build a memorial park in Bhopal..lol...eventually it was stopped because of protests from people of Bhopal...
Irony is that Dow has gone on record that they are not going to acquire the liabilities of UC.

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