next 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 the. enemy in. 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 on. those who are no more today the people they use. those mothers and sisters who were sleeping back 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 so many years who's been drinking poisonous water even today the water is still poisonous and all of our children are sick. of them and the entire community split up with a problem that is why we will keep fighting until her agreement to all demands the fine to continue. and i did for 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 this factory the union carbide plant in the central indian city a book. on up on the contaminated water is making our lives how they're going to get even that . all of this of tons of stuff that we just live betty that is three forty six tons of waste that in that warehouse evidence of thousands of tons of waste on the surface of the back to provide. the. 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 and the most recent study that was done shows that this water

pollution is spreading more than three and a half thousand died in the immediate aftermath of the disaster after inhaling the fuse thousands more were to perish is toxin seeps into the ground around the plant poisoning water supplies. and drought but to say 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 is 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 today ten times more likely to be born with birth defects in children in the rest of the country.

you know. 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 in question is committing crimes crimes on a large number of people if you go through respiratory problems heart problems i problems . the ratio of patients are increasing by the day. people suffering the. people are dying and the next generation is getting affected the horrific. with the fact that the suffering hasn't ended them that injustice continues and the agencies responsible for this.

disaster remain unpunished. thank you.

this little box is lined with union carbide through and through and. it's not much to look at. just a layer of paper a layer of oil and it would still be hot. if you don't think it's as good as we. are bertie. as. in god made globalization is this american transnational that was involved in the war was. in the midst of what's called the green

revolution you mean god by decided to locate the best to save manufacturing you need to. get started in the work seventy's of the formulation just mixing different bits to say. back in degraded production of method i say me. and they knew right in seventy two there'd be method as authentic blind they were building in what would be untested technology in their own words and that its safety was not known. to. fifty thousand injured have been counted but up to two hundred thousand may be affected in the long term cerebral palsy has begun to affect 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 so fifty bodies are being burnt at a time in mass cremations. there are many chemicals found in the water around here which were once used in the union carbide factory our bodies were 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 surface which is contaminated and the chemicals which are in the earth needs to be removed and he talks of the very good here otherwise the pollution will continue and people will keep using polluted water and that is very dangerous and mark.

yeah. thank. you. for that i'm not alone my name is salam bubble but people call me brother salami and. twice have a small business where you know if we are daily wage earners. but i have no savings here walkway no one ever does get saved is spent on medicine.

her condition used to be much better. she used to go to the market go for walks and play around with her. 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 your kind of what medium but 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 meaning here. some.

of my arm today we are at a point where we wanted to do a lot but we can't do much. for the people that has been an ending because people continue to be there more than hundred thousand people still chronically ill and there's at least only 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 and then you do not know when it stop. to get what in my eyes this hospital is of no use all the doctors here are useless

to it's like putting your child's life in danger is a waste of time and money. out of noisy damage to the. here at the hospital money talks. you give money and to be looked after but 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'll spend 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 already but 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 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. well. right now people are not getting proper treatment they have built beaked our hospitals but they give priority to people who have money but what the poor people

get no preference. both our 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. that there are so many memories and so much pain that come since the gas tragedy that surviving has become a living hell. before we had no hope that cyber would even survive that we just left everything to god and came to this hospital. slowly her condition has improved and we realize these injections are very powerful . even if the doctor told us the same thing about the injections and once this

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

terrible. poisonous chemicals were still there this man said jamie no there's no truth in it those chemical waste there and it was decided that waste could be disposed of including to the instructions of the supreme court that there was nothing hazardous for human life then you'll immediately call later on and now we are here to release out a study on the toxic legacy of union god like factory in bhopal and there is a lot of talk in the government that and we have read some reports that the site is not boxes outside the factory he collected groundwater samples we found mostly in one sample which is twenty four times the drinking water standard all the samples that lifted from the site when heavily contaminated on the inside chlorinated been

declassified and wouldn't let me down to. the belief that one is not a one time disaster it is a continuing disaster simply because there is a continuing groundwater contamination and contamination of a lot of the whole bodies because of you see. why is 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 to ask the government the indian government is submitting a request for relief. to us and we're saying we support this case we want 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 and every time an indian politician makes a statement like this this is a union carbide submitted to the american court and says look even their own government says there is 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 communities and people who are suffering

from health effects. from the eighty's onward union carbide corporation u.s.c. got. costs in every way possible and far and that was already by design straight away it meant production of safety. all the safety equipment which was provided here such as the refrigeration system for the storage tank where am i see had to be kept at a low temperature for safety reasons 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 temperature of the sign of dank was unsafe. behind be a storage tank number six hundred and ten this was the m i c storage tank that leaked the process vent line of this tank was faulty and could not hold the

pressure. for this reason water traveled 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 was 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 a series of causes 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 regret. but i was not in control of the workers and. everything was in control of higher 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 is one innocent our chairman read you know just returned on a trip familiar so i want to take this opportunity to express my deep sympathy for all of those who were involved in the terrible tragedy unfold. and when i first heard of the national reports on monday the third of december. they were sketchy at first. by the time tuesday morning arrived the magnitude of the tragedy become quite apparent so friday morning i took that early flight and we arrived and. there was a subdued crowd waiting at the airport to lobby union carbide chairman warren

anderson but the day's events were to take an extraordinary turn and with dramatic developments almost hourly first mr anderson never got to meet the victims of beau powell or indeed his own engineers he was whisked away in a police car to the company's guesthouse in the hills about the town we arrested mr anderson and his team of people i think he came because in part it was his responsibility to be here. i think that's the least i would do if i was him i would be responsible mr anderson had taken refuge behind the not the gates and was definitely not receiving visitors then the local police superintendent drove out with the startling news that mr anderson and two local union carbide executives were under arrest of the exactly the rest can you tell us exactly who the arrested mr mr bill. and mr anderson. when you were arrested mr amherst. it will just be a week there was

a decision. that. should be understood by the world. and everybody knew that it was coming the magistrate informed. me. that we were charged with violations of several indian wars generally related to the language which mr anderson 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 man as they were confined and the house arrest was a. sign of a problem. representative of the us government to lend any assistance possible are you surprised that the chairman of union carbide has been arrested since he's here to try and solve a problem i'm missing a little 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 going after a minute helpless victim of the tragedy. and knows its duty towards thousands of innocent citizens whose lives have been slowed. dramatically affected. by a cruel. on the part of the management of the union but then of course he got bit by could be. the warren anderson and he promised to appear in court when they were called but he just jumped to. the indian government has request for extradition of. the us government has denied his request and says they won't. warren anderson to

face trial. the proposal for the method that society black good one anderson will not need was warren anderson who was informed about the condition of safety in the plant all this was his but it's no knowledge. wealthy british scientists. time to. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report. one

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