BHOPAL GAS VICTIMS BETRAYED!
30 years have elapsed since
the worst industrial disaster at
Bhopal, Union Carbide factory
occurred killing 10,000 people
instantly and 20,000 thousand
more people sub-sequently, besides
disabling more than 25,000 people
with the toxic effect of the leaked
toxic gas-MIC.
According to the data of the
Madhya Pradesh government
there were around 4,31,495 chronic
patients in hospitals in 2010, meant
for toxic gas treatment.
Due to the seepage of toxic
pollution in to underground water
thousands of the children born in
the families surrounding Bhopal
union carbide factory are suffering
with chronic diseases like T.B.,
Cancer, reproductive problems in
women, diseases occurred at the
time of birth and mental and
physical disorders in the newly born
babies.
According to the scientists,
these diseases are affected, due
to the burning the toxic wastage of
Bhopal Carbide factory in the
factory premises itself.
Thus the Bhopal industrial
disaster had devastated the entire
living organism in the vicinity of
Bhopal, and the magnitude of this
devastation is long-standing for
generations.
That this industrial disaster
was perpetrated by the management
of U.C.C. of America knowingly,
with its vested interest in cutting
costs and experimenting the effects
of methylisocyanide on the human
beings in its pursuit of super-profits
is undeniable and amply proved.
But neither the Union carbide
corporation of U.S.A., nor the rulers
of American imperialism nor its so
called democratic and fair judicial
system had ever cared to render
justice to the victims as well to clear
the toxic polluted atmosphere of
Bhopal and to clean-up the boiled
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toxic wastage from the premises of
Bhopal Carbide factory. More over
more cunningly the U.C.C. was sold
to Dow Chemicals to evade the
criminal culpability of U.C.C, for
causing worst devastation in
Bhopal by releasing toxic MIC in to
the atmosphere, polluting the
environment dangerously to the
peril of life existence. The Dow
Chemicals refused its liability and
the big industrial capitalists of India
are supporting Dow Chemicals for
absolving it from the liability for
Bhopal devastation.
On the other hand the
‘democratic’, ‘independent’ rulers
of India from late Indira Gandhi to
the present day Modi, proving
themselves to be true of their
subservient character and nature
to the American imperialism, have
been willfully showing egregious
neglect and criminal apathy to
pursue justice for the citizens
(victims) of India and remediation
of the environment, though the site
of the leak is lying with some 300
tonnes of toxic chemical leading to
a festering problem. This area is
not yet cleaned up. In the name of
cleaning the toxic waste, some of
the toxic waste from the premises
of carbide factory is being
transported to villages in M.P., and
being dumped there, again
polluting the environment around
those villages, transfering to toxic
problem and peril on to those
village communities.
The central rulers through a
settlement of $ 470 million absolved
the union carbide corporation of all
future liabilities. Thus they showed
their undeterred allegiance to the
American imperialism and their
comprador nature for the imperialist
corporations
shamelessly
undermining their very claim of
sovereignty of independent India.
The amount settled for by our
rulers in a paltry amount.
On April 20,2010 due to a big
explosion in well of B.P’s gulf
Mexico 11 workers were killed and
millions of barrels of oil for nearly
three months was spewed on to the
shore lines of 5 states in U.S.A. To
cover the environmental damage
charges and for cleaning-up