and the end of an arrow while north korea mourns the death of its ruler kim jong il his youngest son son steps into power held as the new supreme leader news of his passing but the secretive states neighbor is on high alert i mean mounting fears of regional unserved. up next a special report on people in india still suffering the effects of one of the world's worst industrial disasters even after a quarter century stay with us. in .

december third one thousand nine hundred eighty four the night we can never forget . when the kids of am i see gas from this union carbide factory made people sleep forever young. john those who are no more today the people they use. those mothers and sisters who were sleeping that 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 not even to see the water still poisonous and all of our children are sick. some of them the entire community split up with a problem that is why we will keep fighting until your agreement to all demands the

fight to continue. inoculated 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 on. their shoulders of tons of stuff that we just live betty that is three forty six tons of waste that that warehouse and that is out of the bunch the waste that's 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 or 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 which it perishes toxin seeps 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 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 working with

affected children see the children. 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 the 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

are still 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. first a layer of paper or 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 but decided to locate the best to save manufacturing you need to. get started in the war seventies in the formulation just mixing different best to say. back in degree to production of methods of say me. and they knew right in seventy two that the method as authentic bland they were building it. would be untested technology in their own words and that its safety was not known. the. 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 was in the lethal cocktail of gases so it's difficult to prescribe effective edson 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 here because surface which is contaminated and the chemicals which are in the earth needs to be removed and he talks 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 allowed my name is salam bubble but people call me brother salami and. try have a small business where you lot we are daily wage earners. but

i have no savings here walk away 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.

they had with some time later on we noticed but she couldn't sit up on her own or turn over your kind about me to be a. slowly she started looking to press. when we would talk to her she would not reply. so we brought her to the doctor but the doctor said she's been like this since birth and there might be some treatment for her being 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 fifty 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 too it's like putting your child's life in danger it's a waste of time and money. out of. 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 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.

well. right now people are not getting proper treatment they have built beaked on 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. 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 cibo would even survive that we just left everything to god and came to this hospital.

father. 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.

poisonous chemicals were still there this man 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 imported into the instructions of the supreme court so there was nothing hazardous for human life then your immediately until later on and now we are here to release out a study on the toxic legacy of union carbide factory in hobart and there is a lot of talk in the government that and we have read some reports that the site is not boxing outside the factory. groundwater samples we found mostly in one

sample which is twenty four times the drinking water standard all the samples that he lifted from the site when heavily contaminated on the inside chlorinated been jesus inside and he may not be going to. be believed 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 matter of the whole body 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 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'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 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 there was already by design straight away it meant reduction 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 bank was unsafe.

behind be a storage tank number six hundred 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 wine and. bread you know just returned on a trip familiar so i want to take this opportunity to express my deep sympathy to 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. the magnitude of the tragedy. quite apparent the friday morning i 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 and with dramatic developments almost hourly first mr anderson never got to meet the victims of bo 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. i think. 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 the startling news that mr anderson and two local union carbide executives were

under arrest on the exactly the rest can you tell us exactly who they arrested mr mr bill. and mr anderson. cooper arrested mr. world yes ma'am and there was a decision. that mr anderson and everybody should be understood by the world. and everybody knew that he was coming the magistrate informed. you know with me. there were drawers with violations of several indian or was 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 not even the company's lawyer could see the men as they were confined under house arrest he wasn't going to solve a problem and there was representative the u.s. 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. of the tragedy. and knows its duty. thousands of innocent citizens whose lives have been slowed. dramatically affected. by cruel. on the part of the management of the union but then of course he got bit by could be. very clearly warren anderson had jumped the promise to appear in court when they were called but he just jumped to. the indian government has

request for extradition of warren anderson but the u.s. government has denied the request government says they won't send. him to face trial. the proposal for the method saying that black people who are now anderson and it was warren anderson who was informed about being a condition of safety in the plant all this was his personal knowledge.

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