a very warm welcome back it's home here in moscow this is twenty six thousand astronauts and civilian casualties a wage greets that made his claims of a flawless libya intervention all as a new and just as bloody campaign unfolds against gadhafi is for us a patience. for new sectarian violence threatens around because cold leaders throw out all the stops and by. following america's withdrawal from the rule to the country. three. commands are now on the way to the

space station off the soyuz spacecraft launches successfully on the baikonur cosmodrome. next as the survivors of the world's notorious industrial disaster who are fighting for justice against the corporation responsible for the gas leak in the city of bhopal which killed at least fifteen thousand people. i'm an old notion of the corporation is based on what's called limited liability limited liability means that individual participants are. not be charged with crimes of the corporation commits the kind to a very limited one of the major runs its course and. the corporation acts in such a way that kills. managers the c.e.o. and the shareholders have limited liability and it's not a disregard for human life 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 dust of the indian government meanwhile declares itself the sole representative of the victims and proceeded to sort out the case for four hundred seventy million dollars which was sort of cheap the union carbide start went up by two dollars a share settlement was announced if you could not mean that it could be such a growth sellout because the new government agreed to set all costs present and future liabilities for a sum as small as four hundred seventy million dollars. people received as little as five hundred dollars but lifelong injuries and. unpunished.

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 badly. it's in good health. they are gas and water victim children grow up born into deformities 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 to some sort of burden which i think. you're welcome. i love and that's a. good afternoon c.h.r.y. this is only a summer f.m. to la and i'm joined on the line by son jake 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 july and i would you months or let it happen to my mother and i are like you and well i don't and really don't know why i asked myself because i had no one with me at the parent meeting at my school. she would like they all died that i would and then. i would be. like. irene no they i in my own i that you would like and i remarried. sunday was. his sister was nine his older 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 and. my mother and father were. the largest a free system by. the other two i mean. they lost their parents. and three sisters and two brothers call in one night. my bad and. my family members die because of this back to. the system in children's village. but it is a godsend because it was a thousand people at but according to the people who were carrying out bodies from the. seven thousand to ten thousand people that died in the next seventy two hours and. twenty five thousand people have died. i remember my blood that all came up

and organized it and. then automatically i myself got involved in the fight and i joined like other organizations i think i got it. now i realize no longer you and i factory. playing then all know how contaminated the factories how one going to drain the soil on the factories. like security inside the factory months not paying attention bores them . while we did a study we just want to extend those chemical contamination build a factory and i will die and if there is a link it does that by moving it is going to go for all going to school the site

because god will decide. it is using if you look at all the guys here men's room. was very high. mostly i did it all and want to dive a little bit before mostly as i knew it wasn't being you know in fact been invented up around i did this photo get out and you can still seem ok 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 in 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 the waste streams from the plant emptied into the area of the plant known as the solar evaporation pond area. and this is where the waste and toxic sludge were dumped basically and car b. were standing right on top of it and the other side as you can see there used to be a small leak which she also used as a dumping ground for their waste people depended 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. by doing it and they had 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'll hear. we believe the solar of operation ponds continues to be a source of the subsurface water pollution that's now reaching through the article for and spreading into the surrounding communities and can be detected as far away as three kilometers from the main plant campus so that evacuation order was before very high was going to be used the idea was using.

and one. isolated recent one. off the factory. still being gone damon it. needed water. will remain a source of pollution for this area until it is remedial the party that can do that is you know the december will mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the tragedy at 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. 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 really 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 but 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 to third party it should be the government's responsibility to clean up at public expense after

private polluters. so a no no no no no no that is one of the water of. life people. drinking contaminated water you see this. in the neighborhood and then we got a lot of this bomb tested every founded highly contaminated but they do not have any other choice and they are drinking this water. it was like some time two thousand and four it was sometime in the evening. when i eased back to my home there was a letter written by my brother that. i'm going to die in a few men so take care of yourselves 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. and both of us took my brother to the hospital and finally he had survived 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. to give me another month 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 . another member 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 when they he said to me your governments like ditching you they have been digging people from. so if you are going is not willing to help you then what will you. 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 he'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 it was all the rest against mr wong and. i mr anderson. did it beautifully in. new york of course. it was a bone of pleasure we're looking at we have to be inventive and one of the implications of the population which you know more than thirty thousand people and the. problems is can problems that is this is through. all of our second that's the position that having 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 the

country started off with. a loss of the. crew population but the leaders were willing to take the risk or do something. least want to respond is an us stock to leave the government just pimping for chemicals and these are the same people who have so far stalled justice for the victims. but 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 to go out to get on the other one. of the people is the difference. is not. what is needed. it's like 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. decision. so when you purchase the assets of a company to purchase those liabilities. we are just asking for our right to clean water union carbide is fully exploited sort of in. this problem it informs the

american courts that new york long. because these events took place in india the same time this doesn't apply so in effect they're arguing that they're above them. of course international has no enforcement laws for sure so. if the united states doesn't force a. little bug they should take responsibility for. dime from the water no one is offering clean water they have no choice. dow chemical go to how it's going to how to how. agents of dow should be spanked. if you look submit to the jurisdiction of india then you'll have to submit to the american boards and the american courts after it was all about.

in two thousand and four the supreme court's directed the government to provide clean and safe water but the governments of the state from central has failed to honor the supreme court order. then on the promise that by november two thousand and nine the government would supply clean water but that's a promise was never filled. with 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 from the kids and dad to my deficient emission control board certified against any high concentrations of coal i do so knowing 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 low. but if we win this fight outsiders will gain nothing again will be for years the people of palm. you know what we have asked for is the clean up cost union carbide should clean all the poisonous and harmful toxic chemicals that are stored inside the plant. army to 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 contamination and will be more prone to cancers like disease it is a human body old body and we are fighting for our society we are fighting for our country we are fighting for gas victims. its only by virtue of the fact of this outward. able to. 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 intervene the states

have done something in the film and i made them not and they don't have to be afforded to salvage. what they have said to be if they want this ruling. and if you're right that it was for the most part that. they were all this a white person in cold blood there's a good if they have submitted a letter although that's all over the local police were i. guess the many 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 you this beautiful word but all the facilities that god has are given everything here by destroyed. felt come on friends join the march with the victims and show that your passion has not cooled down. i. has not slowed down because we did not get justice and unless we get justice a passion will never come now. every year millions of people are dying because of his unburdened the pursuit of profit. and what inflation will fall a saying is that you cannot do it in far not allowed to do it because life is sacred and that cannot be violated and. i hope that this 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 my before your father verse read the first of the diverse read will be as important for the final goal. i'm not going to clean the factory farm all those toxic effluents which still pollute the water that the people have to drink. in the amazon and i want the world to understand the crime of these companies they profit from the analysts products as they show on t.v. . these same products poison our lives. we should never allow down to continue their poisonous business in any other city in the world so that another book powell who will not be repeated by eat any worse really gives us more spirit gives us more and good it's meant people i'll know what i have been for and we get more support every bend the previous year if there is

justice and this world would be safer for all of us to live because it would set a precedent 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 it important precedent. i and. i am.

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