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I want to receive updates from The Atlantic about new products and offerings. Skip to content. Sign in My Account Subscribe. The Atlantic Crossword. The Print Edition. Latest Issue Past Issues. Only through November Try subscriber newsletters for free. Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial Disaster, 30 Years Later Alan Taylor December 2, 28 Photos In Focus Thirty years ago, on the night of December 2, , an accident at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, released at least 30 tons of a highly toxic gas called methyl isocyanate, as well as a number of other poisonous gases.
Hints: View this page full screen. Most Recent. Of them, are Bhopal gas tragedy survivors. The different death figures were revealed on the eve of the 36th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy. We visited the houses of of these deceased to find out whether they were gas victims or not. Out of these people, were found to be the Bhopal gas tragedy survivors.
Lingering behind the scenes has been the shadowy hand of the US government, who, throughout three decades of administrations, have repeatedly intervened to shade Union Carbide and more recently its owner Dow Chemicals, from legal liability, according to documents seen by the Guardian. The extradition request was later declined.
Hormats is now vice president of Kissinger Associates, the geopolitical consulting firm set up by former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger, who took on Union Carbide as a client following the disaster and lobbied on their behalf for years after.
US government intervention continues to this day. On six separate occasions between and , the US Department of Justice has simply not passed on the summons for Dow Chemical to appear in the Bhopal Court on criminal charges of sheltering a fugitive, their subsidiary company Union Carbide. This is seen by campaigners as a direct violation of the treaty of mutual legal assistance between the US and India, and has ensured Dow Chemical has never appeared in the courts to answer the criminal charges.
The Indian government has also been accused of working against the victims by kowtowing to corporate interests. Even the smaller indignities suffered by Bhopal victims are relentless in their absurdity. A rare state government scheme to assist victims saw a series of yoga centres built to encourage a holistic approach to helping their pain.
But no yoga teachers were ever hired and the centres now operate as high end wedding venues. There are ongoing plans to clear only a small portion of the toxic waste so a high-end Delhi architecture firm can build a Bhopal memorial. Each anniversary brings a smaller onslaught of attention to Bhopal but the tragedy remains the same.
In JP Nagar, eight people have died in the past two months of diseases related to gas exposure, including two of the key activists who have led the fight for justice for Bhopal.
She lost both her son and daughter to diseases connected to their gas exposure. Over the last three decades, there have been over 16 studies on toxic waste, soil and groundwater contamination. Set up to manufacture pesticides, the Union Carbide plant ended up killing and maiming thousands.
Hazardous waste routinely dumped in factory premises. January A scientific report finds lead and mercury in the breast milk of nursing mothers in communities around the plant. August 14, 10 tonnes of toxic waste incinerated at the treatment storage disposal facility TDSF in Pithampur on a trial basis, three years after Supreme Court order.
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