all right well russia needs democracy but not those words from president dmitri medvedev in his latest state of the union address he said that the country is on the brink of a new political era where every single voice will be heard and also outlined plans for widespread reforms to the country's political system first in line. to arab observers arrived in syria as the conflict there sees its bloodiest two weeks yet over two hundred are thought to have been killed despite more international sanctions imposed against a mask. and over seventy people die as the iraqi capital is rocked by

a wave of terrorist bombs less than a one week after the american military is will control in the war torn country the raging violence is already raising questions over the entire u.s. invasion as well as that eight year campaign. now up next a special report about the survivors of the world's notorious does it match industrial disaster those men and women who are fighting for justice against a corporation responsible for a gas leak in the indian city of bell paul that catastrophe has resulted and least fifteen thousand people killed. 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 that the corporation commits they can to limit it 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 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 declare 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 of the settlement was announced if you could not mean that it could be such a grew old sellout because the union 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 but lifelong injuries and. unpunished. i believe whatever happened in the past we can all 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 badly. it's in good health. they 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 trust are.

good afternoon c.h.r.y. this is only 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 was 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 before you month already happened in a moment. and i don't and really don't know why i asked myself because i had no one with me at that meeting at my school. she would like they all died that i had and. i would be. i really know very in my own eye that you would and i remarried.

sunday was. his sister was nine his elder brother so i mean he was only thirteen and these were the only people left alive in a family of them. and my family all ran away i was told later two of them died in hospital. my mother and father were. the lot is a free system when you buy a lot of. data to a missile. they lost their parents. and three sisters and two brothers all 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 gold mine 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 that died in the next seventy two hours and. fifty 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. now we are like the wall of the un guy factory. playing they don't know how contaminated the factory how one going to get the soil on the factories. like security inside the factory might not paying attention bores them.

why we did this study we just want to extend those chemical contamination build a factory and i will die and see if there is a link. there by building it is going to go on for going to school that's the site because if you gotta let me decide to fight it is easy if your methodology got here men's room and. it was very high. mostly i did it all and want to die one of eighty the phone mostly as it was or be in fact going to be very beautiful and i did this photo get out and you can still see it in the structure of the thing and they're close not surprising that the ground is very high on both them 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 that 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 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 you know and carbonate 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 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 rid of someone. by being it 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 leeching through the aqua for and spreading into the surrounding communities and can be detected as far away as

three kilometers from the main plant campus so that evaporation water before very high was going to be used the idea was u.v. . and one. isolated at a recent one. in the factory was still being. needed water. will remain a source of pollution for this area until it is remedial the party that can do that is going to 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 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 really adding to the tragedy that has occurred today 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 a third party it shouldn't be the government's responsibility to clean up at public expense after private polluters. so. i know 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. 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 eggs 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 of 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 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

. 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 answered this question he said you were goldman but he said to me your government's like ditching you they have been digging people from. so if you're 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 and 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 a wall of and fall the rest against mr wong and. i mr anderson has retired in a beautiful. new york of course never. it was a bone of glacier we're looking at we're going to be invented and one of the implications is put a nation in which more than thirty thousand people and the people. have known about the problems this can problems that is this is through.

all of our second that's happened to your specific governments are not in business to protect the population. that's what they say they are but it's usually a pretty low priority. don't take any. somebody stored in. a record country that started. last with a work crew population but the leaders were willing to take the risk. these want to respond in this 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 yet on the other one. of the people in the prints. is not. really. what is needed. i was hired. for. to bring all of the computer applications on the same. because they are more concerned about profit than anything i just decided that i was making. the wrong. decision. knowing that. so when you purchase the assets of

a company purchased those liabilities. we are just asking for our right to clean water union carbide is fully exploited the sort of international dimension of 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 there are. of course international law has no force laws of force for somebody who's going first if the united states doesn't force a. little but 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 at subject to the jurisdiction of india then you 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 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 they're supplying the spikes is duty and not. all speak up some kids and dad get my definition of mission control board certified against any high concentrations of bacteria so knowing this water is what is being supplied to locals who have given their lives.

and all the. company should be lice that it cannot break this country. but you know if we win this fight outsiders will gain nothing again will be for years the people of. 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. 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 diseases and give a lot of. money 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 that this afternoon. the. able to. come. out of this year a fresh 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 someone. what they have. said to be if they want this ruling. and if you're right that it was for that there's all the shit. they were all so i put in cause they're so good they've submitted a letter although that's all over the local police were i think i was on 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. 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 that 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. what can fit in will fall a 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 dull company that i get. the twenty fifth anniversary is just to learn my the four year for the verse read the first two for the verse three will be as important for the final goal. not goal is to clean the factory farm all those toxic effluents which still pull you the water that the people have to drink. in the 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 not in the same products boys in our lives. we should never allow down to continue their poisonous business in any other city

in the world so that another book power will not be repeated. each day worsley gives us more spirit gives us more and go to judgment people i'll know what i have been formal and we get more support every year than the previous year if there is justice and this world would be safer for all of us to live in 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.

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