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a special report about the survivors of the world's most notorious industrial disaster fighting for justice against the firm responsible for the gas leak in the indian city of bell paul which killed at least fifteen thousand people stay with us . december third one thousand nine hundred eighty four the night we can never forget

. when the leakage of and i see gas from this union carbide factory made people sleep forever but. those who are no more today the people they use. those mothers and sisters who were sleeping bad night in their homes. the gas leakage from the union carbide made them sleep forever. anderson go to hell union carbide go to hell.

for sunni years who's been drinking poisonous water even today the water is still poisonous and all of our children are sick. the entire community split up with a problem that is why we will keep fighting until the agreement all demands the fine to continue. in one thousand nine hundred four a gas leak from a union carbide corporation factory in bhopal killed up to twenty five thousand people it was one of the world's worst industrial accidents more than thirty

thousand people are believed to have died from the effects of toxic chemicals released into the air from the spectra of the union carbide plant in the central indian city of book. on up on the contaminated water is making our lives how they're going to get even that. oh there's a chance of a fix we just live better if it is three forty six tons of waste if that warehouse abit of thousands of pounds away from the surface of the back to provide. this. it was the plant that was responsible for causing the world's worst industrial disaster and now it had been abandoned in a condition where it had become a source of pollution or the most recent study that was done shows that this water

pollution and spreading more than three and a half thousand died in the immediate aftermath of the disaster after inhaling the fuse thousands more with the parishes toxin seats into the ground around the plant poisoning water supplies. and drought but it has been twenty seven years and there is still no proper or secure detox for cation or treatment of the soil and the neutralization of the chemical toxic waste still not being done. yet the government gas relief minister bubble is claiming there are no more sick people and that the factory is clean and that one hundred percent of the people are drinking one hundred percent pure water these are complete lies groups walking with affected children see the children. ten times more likely to be born with birth defects and children in the rest of the country.

you know. that. there are kids being born like this there are many kids like this in my own area there are many kids like this. by refusing to be poisoned in their water and soil. pollution is committing crimes crimes on a large number of people. respiratory problems heart problems i problems. the ratio of patients are increasing by the day. people suffering this. there are people dying and the next generation is getting infected with horrific but condemned to malformations they're born with so the fact that the suffering hasn't ended and that injustice continues and the individuals and agencies responsible for

these. mass disasters remain unpunished.

there's a. cruise line with union carbide through and through and. through a layer of paper a layer of oil and it would still be out. if you don't think there's. a birdie. in god made globalization is this the american transnational that was involved in the war was. in the midst of what's called the green

revolution by decided. to say manufacturing you need to. get started in the war seventy's and the formulation just mixing different bits to say. back in degraded production of methods of same. and they knew nine hundred seventy two there'd be method as without a plan they were building in what would be untested technology in their own words and that its safety was not known. fifty thousand injured have been counted but up to two hundred thousand may be affected in the long term cerebral palsy has begun to wish the survivors the doctors hardly know how to relieve the suffering they're not sure exactly what it was in the lethal cocktail of gases so it's difficult to prescribe effective at

certain work for a funeral pyres is becoming scarce since fifty bodies are being burnt at the time in mass cremations. if there are many chemicals found in the water around here which were once used in the union carbide factory. every time it rains the toxic waste which is lying on the surface of the factory goes deep inside the earth and pollutes the soil. because here because surface which is contaminated and the chemicals which are in the earth needs to be removed and detox a fight. otherwise the pollution will continue and people will keep using polluted water and that is very dangerous and mark. thank.

you. but. i'm not a nun my name is salam bubble but people call me brother salome and. two i have a small business where you know if we are daily wage earners. but i have no savings here walkway whatever does get saved is spent on medicine.

her condition used to be much better. she used to go to the market go for walks earn play around with. she used to laugh and have fun there were no problems. of some time later on we noticed but she couldn't sit up on her own or turn over of your kind about me what here.

slowly she started looking to press. when we would talk to her she would not reply . so we brought her to the doctor the doctor said she's been like this since birth and there might be some treatment for her.

today we are at a point where we wanted to do a lot but we can't do much. for the people that has an ending because people continue to be ill there are more than hundred thousand people still chronically ill and there's at least thirty thousand people who have been forced to drink contaminated water for the last fifteen sixteen years when you see that the next generation is affected then you do not know when it stop. in my eyes this hospital is of no use all the doctors here are useless too it's

like putting a child's life in danger it's a waste of time and money. out of nothing. here at the hospital money talks. you give money and to be looked after we are poor people and we don't have money and that's why no one looks after us even if your child is dying. we have spent five thousand rupees since we have come here i'm not sad about that i will earn it again but as for my daughter there is no improvement and we don't know what to do.

whatever is within my power i will do it. the hospitals don't even give our met some to those who need it or if someone doesn't have gas relief papers. how does he apply for medication. if a prescription is made for five rupees how is a poor laborer going to spare five rupees at the end of the day all of the big ministers of the state are being pin money in their pockets i want to face them even if they put me behind bars and i'm ready to go to jail for these poor people because these hunger thirst sickness look at those gutter tents couldn't fall sick by drinking that water. right now people are not getting proper treatment they have built beaked on hospitals but they give priority to people who have money but. poor people get no

preference. bhopal hospital was made for gas victims but treatment is not given in time and people die painfully waiting for treatment. sometimes i feel like there is nothing in our control. there are so many memories and so much pain that comes since the gas tragedy that surviving has become a leave in hell. before we had no hope that cibo would even survive if we just left everything to god's own. came to this hospital. slowly her condition has improved and we realize these injections are very powerful . the doctor told us the same thing about the injections and once this course is

over another will begin and those are supposed to be even better than. the doctor said she's almost conscious now. when we came here we were very sad and when we leave i just want us to be very happy here.

but isn't that rather shaming for so many years after that terrible tragedy poisonous chemicals were still there. and said to me no there's no truth in it there was chemical waste there and it was decided that waste could be disposed of were put into the instructions of the supreme court so there was nothing has the risk of human life that you'll immediately i'm told later on the get go and i'll be at yesterday's out of study on the boxing legacy of union carbide factory and will bought them that is lot of stock in the government that and we have met some people that the site is not boxing outside the fact me recollected eleven groundwater example we found locally in one thousand of the displaced people find that drinking water in spangles all the sound was that the collected from the site when heavily contaminated they obviously i think by slowness of been give us insight and wanting to let me go through. the belief that obama is not a one time disaster that it is

a continuing disaster simply because there is a continuing ground was a combination and combination of a lot of it the whole budget because of you know your. life there is a contradiction in what the government is saying i mean you have to ask the government and i think it's a very good question about the government you know in government it's submitting a request for relief. to us or think we support this we want the union carbide to clean up this plant and this. pollution at the same time the government is making statements that there is no pollution problem every time an indian politicians makes a statement like this this is the union carbide submitted to the american court and says book even their own government says there's no problem this is a class action the case has been pending since one thousand nine hundred nine. the plaintiffs are people from the affected community. people who are suffering from

health effects. from the eighty's onward. us see costs in every way possible and. there was already by design straight away it meant production of safety. equipment which was provided here such as the refrigeration system for the storage tank where am i see how to be kept at a low temperature for safety reasons it was all shut down in may one thousand nine hundred four. they shut down. just to save something like seventy dollars a day which meant that the. bank was unsafe. behind be a storage tank number six hundred ten this was the storage tank that leaked the process vent line of the. pressure. for this reason water travelled into the

tank while the water entering into the tank may have been the immediate trigger of the disaster the fact that all the safety systems were turned off well certainly contributing to the disaster the fact that he was not being stored as it was originally required to be stored at zero degrees celcius that fact contributed so that you really had of clauses coming together after the accident i found out that the machinery provided by union carbide for the plant was unproven technology the used equipment verifying it or making sure it was safe. because i was working with union carbide india ltd. that's what i would gretz. but i was not in control of the workers and. everything was in control of fire management. there were criminal charges for an offense known under indian law as culpable

homicide which would be the equivalent of manslaughter and union carbide had been served but had refused to appear to face those criminal charges. with me today it. was you know just returned on a trip familiar so i want to take this opportunity to express my deep sympathy for all of the. terrible tragedy. and when i first heard of the reports. they were sketchy at first. by the time. the magnitude of the tragedy. quite apparent friday morning took that early flight and we arrived. there was a subdued crowd waiting at the airport to be union carbide chairman warren anderson

but the day's events were to take an extraordinary turn with dramatic developments almost hourly. never got to meet the victims of or indeed his own engineers he was whisked away in a police car to the company's guesthouse in the hills about the town. i think he came because it was his responsibility. but. i would do if i was him i would be responsible mr anderson had taken refuge behind the gates and was definitely not receiving visitors then the local police superintendent with the startling news that mr anderson and two local union carbide executives and the rest of the. rest of. the world. there was

a decision. by the world. and everybody knew that it was coming. and. there were. several. general who. had been arrested on charges of criminal and constructive negligence offenses carrying a possible two year jail sentence and theoretically no chance of bail even the company's lawyer could see the men as they were confined. saw the problem. represented the u.s. government as possible trying to. solve a problem. at the magic pradesh state headquarters a senior official confirmed the government would be seeking compensation for

damages and they launched a bitter attack on union carbide this government. with the tragedy. and knows its. innocent citizens whose lives have been. dramatically affected. by a cruel. but the management of the union. of course. but he just jumped. and has request for extradition of. the u.s. government has denied the request says they want. to face trial.

and it was warren anderson who was informed. of safety in the plant all this. wealthy british style. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our.

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