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a crew of three on their way to the international space station where they plan to carry out a one hundred experiments just so you spacecraft would need to develop equipment long so that without a trauma the bank wouldn't cause much drama in kazakhstan. as the headlines up next a special report about this survivors of the world's notorious industrial disaster fighting for justice against the corporation responsible for the gas leak in the indian city of bell paul which killed at least fifteen thousand people. i'm of the 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 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 a 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 market share. if they don't do that they're out and somebody else is in 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 people did not mean that it could be such a grew old sellout because the new government agreed to settle all bost present and future liabilities for a sum as small as four hundred seventy million dollars. people received as little as five hundred dollars but life long injuries and the 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 shouldn't these 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 battle. it's in good health. there are gas and water victim children 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 to some sort of burden which i think. you're welcome. i love and that's.

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 the right before i was a few months already happen to my mother and i are. and i don't. know why i asked myself so because i had no one with me at the parent meeting at my school so she was like they all died that i had and. i would be. i really know very few in my own eye 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 all ran away but i was told later two of them died in hospital that. my mother and father were. the bodies of three sisters we have by. the other two are missing. they lost their parents. and three sisters and two brothers calling one night. my bad and. my family members die because of this back to. the system when students didn't. but it is a godsend because it was a thousand eight hundred people at what according to the people who were carrying

out bodies from the. seven thousand to ten thousand people had died in the next seventy two hours and. twenty five thousand people have died. i remember my but that all came up and organize it and. then automatically i myself got involved in the fight and i joined like other organizations i think i got it and. now we are like the wall of the u.n. guys factory. playing then and all know how contaminated then the factories how on going again the soil on the factories they're like security inside the factory money not paying attention bores them.

why do you do this study we just want to extend those chemical contamination visited a factory and i'll die and see if there is a link it's just there by building it is going to go on for going to school that's the site because if you've got the site justified it is easy if you look at all the guys here mitt romney and. it's all very high. mostly i did it all and want to die one of the phone mostly as it wasn't the fact been invented i did this photo get out and you can still see the market in the structure of the thing and then close not surprising that the plant is very high among both them ok. we have received very important documents in this case that i think establish 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 that was of 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 carby 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 they waste people depended on the water from the link so they drank it and it cost and pedantic. union carbide from the design stage then 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 then when they had some kind of sludge so they took all of us from. here and there and you see this black lining. ground of this landfill they believe that this kind of lining if. it can keep. all they. need to go every day i don't hear. we believe the solar evaporation ponds continues to be a source of the subsurface water pollution that's now reaching through the article for and spreading into these surrounding communities and can be detected as far away as three kilometers from the main plant campus so that. was before very

high i was going to be using the idea i was using. and one. isolated out of a recent one. off the factory was still being. needed water. will remain a source of pollution for this area until it's remedial and 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 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. bringing it into our youth. 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 would like sometime 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. 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 he could hear a voice in his mind i believe that a wall inhales with time but in bhopal case it's getting worse. they 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 . i'm not

a 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 you were god when they he said to me your garments like ditching you they have been betraying people from. so if you are going is not willing to help you then work with them because we do for you. on that particular night 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 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 glacier we're looking at we are going to be inventive and one of the implications of the population which you know more than thirty thousand people and the people. i've known about the problems this can problems that is this is through. all of our second best position that having to get specific cover ups 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 started. or the record country started off with. a loss of the working group population but the leaders were willing to take the risk or risk. 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. 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 to the point it's. this is not. rehab. not a good. business what is a new. business. i was hired. for. to bring all of their computer. because they are more concerned about. anything i just decided that i was making. the wrong. decision purchase union carbide knowing that. so when you purchase the assets of

a company purchase those. 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. doesn't apply so in effect they're arguing that they're above them. appropriate behavior for. of course international law has no enforcement laws in force for some but. if the united states doesn't force a. political body 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 go 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 courts 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 fulfilled but some pipelines were laid in some areas but not in every area the water the assoc line the spikes is duty and not between can. all speak up some kids and dad be made to produce position control board certified against any high concentrations of oil like you said knowingly this water is what is being supplied to locals who have given their lives.

no company should be a license but it cannot break this country's laws. budget 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 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 audios madea's 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 this after the. able to exist. that's come. out of this year a fresh known bailable warrant has been issued for foreigners anderson. and if the

government feels to wake up and help them 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 that it's not going to somebody from the government i mean really i'm not and they don't have to be afforded to someone to government what they have. said to the government if they want this ruling. and if you're right that it was what it was all that. they were all this is why this in court they have subpoenaed they have submitted a letter although that's all over the local police were i think i. am any ideas from our research one thing is very clear the union carbide india factory is infected with poison 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 given 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 word with all the facilities but god has given everything here why destroyed. that all come on friends join the march with the 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 this unburdened the pursuit of profit. and what inflame will follow 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. the goal is to clean the factory farm all those toxic effluents which still pollute the water that the people have to drink. and 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. and in the same products 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 book power will not be repeated. each day they were three gives us more spirit gives us more and go to its meant people i'll know what i have been for about five and may get more support every year 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 to 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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