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between britain and the. newly arrived. it's the first part of a special report about one of the world's deadliest industrial disasters who are fighting for justice against a corporation responsible for a regional gas leak in the indian city. i'm an old notion of the corporation is based on what's called limited liability limited liability means that individual participants are to not be charged with crimes that the corporation commits the kind to very limited one of the major runs its course and. the corporation acts in such a way that kills the managers the c.e.o. and the shareholders have limited liability and it's not that they have disregard

for human life that maybe the nicest people in the world maybe give to charity. but in their institutional rule as managers of the corporation there is a task that they asked. that task is to maximize profit and market share. if they don't do that they're out and somebody else is in the indian government meanwhile declare itself the sole representative of the victims and proceed to sort out the case for four hundred seventy million dollars which was so cheap the union carbide start went up by two dollars a share the sentiment was people could not mean that it could be such a grew old sellout because the new government agreed to settle all bonds to present and future liabilities for a sum as small as four hundred seventy million dollars. people received as little as five hundred dollars for lifelong injuries and. unpunished.

every month i believe whatever happened in the past we cannot change it but what is happening now is in our control it's been twenty seven years and the government should least do something like people should get clean water because the ground water is contaminated whoever survived that night and whatever life is left for the gas victims they should get proper treatment so they can spend the rest of the. it's in good health. there are gas and water victim children born and it's deformity and their future has to be kept in mind so that these kids can live a proper life and so that their parents do not take them as some sort of burden which i think. you're welcome. i love and that's. good afternoon c.h.r.y. this is only summer f.m.

to la and i'm joined on the line by son jay very much who is an activist in the bhopal campaign and also a survivor of the terrible disaster in one thousand nine hundred eighty four so sanjay can you tell us a bit about what happened to you on the night of december third one thousand nine hundred four well i was born in. before i was a few months already happen to my mother and i are. and i don't and really don't know why i asked myself so because i had no one with me and the parents meeting at my school. she would like they all died that i would and. i would be. i really know very well in my own eyes that you would like and i remarried. sunday was. his sister was nine his elder brother i mean

he was only thirteen and these were the only people left alive in a family of. my family old runaways i was told later two of them died in hospital. my mother and father were. the bodies of three sisters by. the other two hundred. they lost their parents. and three sisters and two brothers calling one night. my bad and. my family members die because of this factory. and his sister when children's village. but it is a gold mine because it was a thousand eight hundred people at what according to the people who were carrying

out bodies from the g.g. from the houses around seven thousand to ten thousand people have died in the next seventy two hours and. twenty five thousand people have died. i remember my but that will be a month and organize it and. then automatically i myself got involved in the fight and i joined like other organizations i think. now we are like no longer young guys factory. playing then all know how contaminated the factory how one going to get the soil on the factories. like security inside the factory might not paying attention towards them. why we did this study we just want to extend those chemical contamination believe

the factory and i will die and see if there is a linkage. by moving it is going to go on for going to school that's the site because if you got the site justified it is easy if your little knowledge you got here men's room in mogadishu. was very high. i did it all and want to die one of the phone mostly as i hear it how do you know in fact when a very beautiful and i did this photo get out and you can still see the market in the structure of the design and then close not surprising that the plant is very high on bottom ok. we have received very important documents in this case that i think established very clearly that union carbide knew with advance as early as nine hundred seventy three that this pollution problem that we are facing today they knew this was going to happen and they and they went ahead with this project despite that specific knowledge as early as one nine hundred seventy three union

carbide engineers or warning the company that the plant presents an unusual challenge in that there's no nearby running body of water into which waste can be discharged so from the design stage waste disposal plant was and was a major concern. a lot of waste streams from the plant emptied into the area of the plant known as the solar evaporation pond area. here this is where the waste in toxic sludge were dumped basically and carly we're standing right on top of it and the other side is you can see there used to be a small leak which she also used as a dumping ground for their waste people dependent on the water from the link so they drank it and it cost and pedantic. union carbide knew from the design stage that the bhopal plant could pollute groundwater they also knew that there was

a there was a surrounding community that used that groundwater for its drinking water supply. so they believed that they can get. by. and and then when they had like some kind of sludge so they took all of us from. here and there and you see this black lining. the ground of this landfill they believe that this kind of lining if. it can get. away. every day i don't hear. we believe the solar of operation ponds continues to be a source of the subsurface water pollution that's now reaching through the for and spreading into the surrounding community and can be detected as far away as three kilometers from the main plant campus so that evacuation was before very high

was going to be used the idea was using. and one. isolated at a recent one. off the factory was still being. needed water. will remain a source of pollution for this area until it's remedial the party that can do that is you know. the twenty fifth anniversary of the tragedy at a union carbide india ltd facility in bhopal and even today continues to evoke strong emotions globally and rightfully so we're saddened however that despite all that has been written about the tragedy in the past twenty five years so many misconceptions still exist about union carbide and it's wrong the government of india is the appropriate entity to address any i'm going to express by the people

of bhopal. we are saddened by the fact that the site remains on remediated adding to the tragedy that has occurred the site today is in the hands of the state government of madhya pradesh the state government. and together with the central government they are trying to get the site cleaned up the union carbide is now a wholly owned subsidiary. two thousand and one third the boards of both carbide approve the burger agreement create the world's second largest chemical. does complicate things and doesn't because the law on contamination is very clear in india and in the us and which is the principal polluter pays principle is the idea under international law that the liability for pollution should always be traced back to the polluter the polluter should not be able to externalize the costs of pollution onto society at large or

a third party it shouldn't be the government's responsibility to clean up at public expense after private polluters. so no no no no no no no that is one of the. people. drinking contaminated water you see. in the neighborhood and then we've got a lot of this bomb test bed every founded highly contaminated but they do not have any other choice and they are drinking this water. it would like sometime two thousand and four it was sometime in the evening. when i was eased back to my home there was a letter written by my brother that. i'm going to die in a few men eggs so take it off yours and he was like he was laying on his back in this room so i had to phone one of my one of my brother's friends and they said.

both of us took my brother to the hospital and finally had to write that thing. before that he had run into a jungle where food he had tried to set him off fire. he didn't have any physical problems his sickness was that of paranoia and fear that if anyone came over then she would go and hide in the bathroom he used to say she could hear a voice in his mind i believe that a wall inhales with time but involved it's getting worse. it made up my mind if we blame each other for everything when no solution will come . a government blames the company we blame the government of our government so first the company suffers and most importantly the people who suffer. i'm going to

remember actually who was the media person who asked me this question who do you blame to work surely according to you. before i answer to his question he said your god they he said to me your garments like ditching you they have been the people from. so if you are going is not willing to help you then work with chemicals will do for you. on that but i'm not particular night on the second and third december some gases from the union carbide leaks some of the people died to being an autopsy surgeon it was my moral duty to find out what the cause of death was. after analysis it was established that cyanide was present along with nearly twenty million components are to which it team were deadly. like in hiroshima and nagasaki it had an adverse effect on their genes so similarly this adverse effect of the gases causing genetic mutation in india. would like that we don't

speak because it's not a good image of all india in america they don't want to talk about because in spite of the fact that there is a wobble and fall race against mr wong and. i mr anderson has been a beautiful. new york of course. it was a bone of glacier we're looking at we are going to be infected and one of the implications is putting nation which more than thirty thousand people are affected and the people who are drinking. problems this can problems that is this is through. our second that's. going to get specific governments are not in business to protect

the population. it's what they say they are but it's usually a pretty low priority. don't take any. somebody's story. or the record country started off with. a loss of the. crew population but the leaders were willing to take the risk. these want to respond soft to leave the government just pimping for chemicals and these are the same people who have so far. we strongly feel that on this occasion of the twenty seventh anniversary we will be able to

destroy the nexus and we will get justice. they have not begun to get on by the other one for by the. people of the prints. this is not. really. what is needed. i was hired. for you. to bring all of the computer applications. i saw. because they are more concerned about. anything i just decided that i was making a profit for just the wrong people and made the decision. knowing. so when you purchased the assets of a company purchased those. we are just asking for our right to clean water

union carbide is fully exploited. this problem it informs the american courts that new york law can't because these events took place in india the same. doesn't apply so in effect they're arguing that they're above them. for. of course international law has no enforcement laws of force or so. if the united states doesn't force them there's no potable but they should take responsibility for. where dime from the water no one is offering clean water they have no choice. dow chemical go to how it go to how to how. agents of dow should be spanked. if you look at subject to the

jurisdiction of a deal then you have to submit to the american courts and the american courts have to do something about. this in two thousand and four the supreme courts directed the government to provide clean and safe water but the government the states and central has failed to honor the supreme court order. then the problem is that by november two thousand and nine the government would supply clean water but that's a promise was never fulfilled but some pipelines were laid in some areas but not in every area the water that supplying these pipes his duty and not for drinking water all speak up some kids and dad get my definition addition control board certified advanced very high concentrations of coal like you said knowingly this water is what is being supplied to locals who have given their lives.

the. company should realize that it cannot break this country's. budget if we win this fight outsiders will gain nothing again will be for years the people of. lost what we have asked for is the clean up cost union carbide should clean all the poisonous and powerful toxic chemicals that are stored inside the plant. the groundwater which is polluted in a radius of three kilometers around the plant should be cleaned and union carbide should be paid for about to. bring anderson to india bring them here dow chemical leave india leave india on top of that we have asked for

compensation for the victims who are suffering. and it's our mission to fight for people who are weak people who cannot fight for themselves or even know how. union carbide should bear these expenses because in the coming ten to fifteen years people will keep getting affected due to the growing contamination and will be more prone to cancers like diseases and human body holds on if we are fighting for our society we are fighting for our country we are fighting for gas victims. it's only by virtue of the fact of the south would. be. able to exist. that's come. out of this year afresh known bailable warrant has been issued for anderson. and if the government fails to wake up and help then we are committed to

fight the next twenty seven years against the nexus between the company and the government the process could change dramatically if the indian government into the states has done something in the building that made them not and they don't have to be afforded to someone. what they have. said to be if they want this ruling. and if you're right the candidate for the post if. they were all this a white person in court they're so good if they have submitted a letter or that that's all over the hill or you or i think i. am any ideas from our research one thing is very clear the union carbide india factory is infected with poison food it is a poison which will not lead to death just by touching it so i can understand why their money pradesh government is saying there is no poison. but it is also true

that it's a kind of poison that is leaking into our environment that is the main thing i am saying is that the factory should be cleaned as soon as possible. god has given us this beautiful word with all the facilities that god has given everything here why destroyed. that all come on friends join the march with his victims and show that your passion has not cooled down. i. has not turned down because we did not get justice and unless we get justice a passion will never cleaned out. every year millions of people are dying because of his unburdened the pursuit of profit. what can people follow saying is that you cannot do it you are not allowed to do it because life is sacred and that cannot be violated and. i think that

it is my hour the twang day with the strength from the rest of the world who will get justice from dell company that i get. the twenty fifth anniversary is just to learn ma the for your father verse three the first of the diverse three will be as important for the final goal. the goal is to clean the factory farm all those toxic effluents which still pull you the water that the people have to drink . and amazon i want the world to understand the crime of these companies they profit from the analysts products as they show on t.v. and in the same products voice in our lives not only. we should never allow down to continue their poisonous business in any other city in the world soon that another good pal who will not be repeated. each day we're

sorry gives us more spirit gives us more and go to judgment people i'll know what i have been for and may get more support than the previous year if there is justice and this world would be safer for all of us today because it would set a precedent and a parent company cannot set up a subsidiary somewhere in the world create a large scale environmental problem there and then when the time comes to fix liability sell off its local subsidiary and then retreat to the united states or any other developed country and a basically say that nobody can sue them here nobody can hold them accountable so that's the sort of context in which if our litigation were to be successful it would set important precedent.

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