it's the already impoverished population hard. at the end of any hero while north korea mourns the death of its ruler kim jong il his youngest son steps into power hailed as the new supreme leader news of his passing but the secretive states neighbor is on high alert and with mounting fears of regional uncertainty. up next a special report on people in india still suffering the effects of one of the world's worst industrial disasters in both paul more than a quarter century later stay with us. i'm an old notion of the corporation is based on what's called limited liability limited liability means that the individual participants in a corporation not be charged with crimes of the corporation commits the kind to a 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 disregard for human life that maybe the nicest

people in the world maybe give to charity. but in their institutional role as managers of the corporation there is a task that they must follow 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 proceed to sort out the case for four hundred seventy million dollars which was so cheap the car buying start went up by two dollars a share the sentiment was if you could not mean that it could be such a grueling sell out because the indian 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 for lifelong injuries and. 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 should least 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 the. i was in good health she said they are gas and water victim children were born with deformities 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 as some sort of burden or to nothing. you're welcome. i love and trust are. good afternoon c.h.r.y. this is only summertime to la and i'm joined on the line by son jay vermont who is

an activist in the bhopal campaign and also was survivors 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 nine hundred eighty four well i was on the right before you months or let it happen right in the moment. so and well i don't really don't know why i asked my so because i had no one with me at the better meeting at my school so she would like. it and. i would be. like. iranian are very high in my own eye that you would like and iran only. reason. sunday was less than two and 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. all the years in my family old runaways but i was told later two of them died in hospital my. mother my mother and father for. the bodies of three sisters who were nearby. 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 fact. he and his sister in children's village. but it is a godsend because there were a thousand eight hundred people had died but according to the people who were carrying out bodies from the g eight from the houses around 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 ok my not going to have. thought about it but then automatically i myself was in the fight and i joined like other organizations i think i got it and. now i realize a lot of the young guys actually. playing them in all know how contaminated the pack a how one going to apply it on the factories they're like security inside the fact the money i'm not paying attention bores them. why we did this study we just want to see if this that extent of chemical contamination within the factory and outside and see if there is

a link it's just that by moving it is going to go far for our going to school that's the site because if you've got a myspace decipher justify having that it is using if you look at all the lead guy here men's room and mostly enough and it was very high most of the league ideas off and on to that little baby the phone mostly as i had it all to be in fact been invented last night i did this little bit out and you can still see mostly in the dust of their design and their clothes not surprising that the plant is very high most of them ok. we have received very important documents in this case that i think establish very clearly that union carbide knew that events of the early one nine hundred seventy three that this pollution problem that we're 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 nine hundred seventy three union carbide engineers were warning the company that the bhopal 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 and 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 and toxic sludge were down to basically an 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 had a carbonate also used as a dumping ground for their waste people depended on the water from the leak so they drank it and it cost and pedantic. union carbide from the design stage that the bhopal plant could pollute groundwater they also knew that there was there was a surrounding community that used that groundwater for its drinking water supply.

so they believe that they can get rid of someone. by evil braiding it and then when they had like some kind of sludge so they took all of us from the bones and here and there and you see this black lining underneath the ground of this landfill they believe that this kind of lining if this lining and it can keep the vast away from the. lining and the need to go everywhere i want here. we believe the solar evaporation ponds continues to be a source of the subsurface water pollution that's now leeching through the aqua for and spreading into these surrounding communities and can be detected as far away as three kilometers from the main plant campus so that evacuation what they found very

high was really you see out here was using greenville as the only english town and was destroyed. this will be an isolated recent one. on the factor you want to do with still being gone dominated and people are forced to needed water because they do not have any of that shite come along the way will remain a source of pollution for this area until it's remedial and the party that can do that is you know this december will mark 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 my dear 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 of dow chemical. thousand one third the boards of carbide approve the burger agreement create the world's second largest chemical company. does complicate things and doesn't because the. nation is very good in india and in the us and. principle the 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 that is one of the. people. drinking contaminated water you see. in the neighborhood and then he got a lot of this bomb tests every founded highly contaminated they do not have any other choice and they are drinking this water. it was like sometime two thousand and four it was sometime in the evening. when i refused to back to my home there was a letter written by my brother. i'm going to die in a few men so take care of yours 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 only.

both of us took my brother to the hospital and finally he had to write 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 war in hell's with time but involved it's getting worse. if we blame each other for everything the new solution will come. government blames the company we blame the government of the government so first the company suffers and most importantly the people who suffer. i don't 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 god when they he said to me your governments like ditching you they have been the people from. so if you're going is not willing to help you then what will you. do for you. on that i'm not particular night on the second and third december some gases from the union carbide leak and some of the people died now 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 nine components are to which it team were deadly. they get us. like in hiroshima and nagasaki it had an adverse effect on their genes so similarly this adverse effect of the gas is causing genetic mutation in india they all fall we would like that we don't speak

up 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 one and. i mr anderson has retired in a beautiful house in. new york and of course. i'm a big bend it was a bone of glacier we're looking at we're going to be inventive and one of the implications is for the nation which you know the more than thirty thousand people are affected and the people who are drinking the polluted water have known about the problems this can problems that is diseases through the. infections industrialization of. foreign investment you know. all of those are sick and that's the position that having to get 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 worry that somebody started taking over the record country that started it pretty often loses. often the loss of the working crew the population but the leaders were willing to take the risk or do so in the room populations for their own ends i mean it's not. history. the. least want to response in us soccer on telly the government just pimping for dow chemicals and these are the. same people who have so far stalked justice for the bhopal gas victims here 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.

to go in there have not to go out get on by the people the other ones will buy that we have a lot of the people responsible for this you can follow them yet this is not the rehab norbit the way in grade five years what can you not get just if you missed it is one of the what is new but don't let. this be the book make it's nothing new i was hired to do emerge an acquisition for union carbide to bring all of the computer applications on the same traumas dowse i saw how a corporation works because they are more concerned about bottom line profit than anything i just decided that i was making a profit for just the wrong people and chemicals made the decision to purchase union carbide knowing that these liabilities were outstanding so when you purchase the assets of a company purchased those liabilities. we are just asking for our right to clean

water union carbide has fully exploited the sort of international dimension of this problem it informs the american courts that new york law can't apply because these events took place in india the same time the same indian law doesn't apply so in effect they're arguing that they're above the law so there are international rules . for. of course international law has no enforce laws for somebody. if the united states doesn't force a. lot of oh but they should take responsibility for. where dime from the water i mean no one is offering clean water they have no choice. dow chemical go to how it go to how do 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 do something about.

this in two thousand and four the supreme court's directed the government to provide clean and safe water but the government the state 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 promise was never filled . with some pipelines were laid in some areas but not in every area the water they're supplying in these pipes his duty. and dad could buy differ dish but mission control board certified again spinny high concentrations of it do so knowingly this water is what is being supplied to the locals who have given their lives.

no company should realize that it cannot break this country's low. budget if we win this fight outsiders will gain nothing gain will be for years the people of palm. coast 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. army to 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. chemical leave india leave india on top of that we have asked for

compensation for the victims who are suffering. it's our mission to fight for people who are weak people who cannot fight for themselves or even know how. this is all union carbide should bear these expenses because in the coming ten to fifteen years people will keep getting affected due to the growing to water contamination and will be more prone to cancers like diseases given audios madea's we are fighting for our society we are fighting for our country we are fighting for bhopal gas victims. it's only by virtue of the fact that this outfit if it indeed. is even able to resist the data that's coming out this year a fresh known bailable warrant has been issued for foreign anderson. and if the government fails to wake up and help then we are committed to fight for the next twenty seven years against the nexus between the company and the government the

process could change dramatically if the indian government the jury system has a court think that someone somebody from the government the man who they're not they don't have the authority to someone because they need the government but what they have said to the government if they want this relief i'll go and interview i think it was what it was that. they were all the survivors in court of law they have subpoenaed they have submitted a letter all of the that's all over oh well you're. right. that the many ideas from our research one thing is very clear the union carbide india factory is infected with poison food 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 this but it is also true that it's a kind of poison that is leaking into our environment that is the main thing i'm

sane is that the factory should be cleaned as soon as possible. god has given us this beautiful word with all the facilities that god has given everything here why destroyed. itself come on friends join the march with the victims and show that your passion has not cooled down. it has not come down because we did not get justice and unless we get justice a passion will never come down. every year millions of people dying because of his unburdened the pursuit of profit. what can claim will fall a saying is that you cannot do it in far not allowed to do. because life is sacred and that cannot be violated and.

this is my house the twenty eight with the strength from the rest of the world who will get justice from dollar company that i. did one hundred fifth anniversary is just to learn the fortieth of the verse read the first of the diverse read will be as important for the final goal and the goal is to clean the factory farm all those toxic fluids which still pull you the water that the people have to drink . 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. . the same products in our lives will not only eat. we should never allow down to continue their poisonous business in any other city in the world soon that another book powell who will not be repeated by. any worse

really gives us more spirit gives us more and go to judgment people i'll know what i have been for and may get more support 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 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. i am am

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