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headlines for you now harry nazi the u.n. security council sets its sights on syria with a draft resolution on the tables reinforce the fragile peace deal and send in observers the u.n. brokered cease fark headed to force on thursday an official say it's been fully implemented it reports some fresh clashes. north korea launches its controversial long range rocket plunges into the sea moments later stupid stuff think of the united nations russia says the roundings resulting through the potency
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. sensed over immigration range but nearer france's far right gains ground in the presidential race their public rallies against multiculturalism concrete incentive national front party missing its highest of appalling rate. well more than two decades after the world's worst industrial disaster victims of union carbide and gas leak continue to struggle for justice against an american firm or special report is next fall. but i mean the whole notion of a corporation is based on what's called limited liability limited liability means that individual participants are. not charged with crimes of the corporation mets' it comes with very limited it's one of the major runs its course and. the corporation acts in such a way that kills the managers and the c.e.o.
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and the shareholders have limited liability i mean it's not that they have disregard for human life and maybe the nicest people in the world to give to charity when i was working but in their institutional rule as managers of the corporation there is a task that they asked. the task is to maximize profit or markets. 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 for victims and proceed to sort out the case for four hundred seventy million dollars which was sort of cheap the union carbide start went up by three dollars a share of the settlement was announced if you cannot believe that it could be such a cruel sell out because the union government agreed to settle all past present and future and loudly fees for asylum as small as four hundred seventy million dollars . people received as little as five hundred dollars but lifelong injuries and.
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unpunished. every month 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 at least do something like people seek a 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. it's in good health. there are gas and water victim children were born into deformities and there 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 or to. go out of their way. i love at first i.
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could afternoon c.h.r.y. this is only some reference to law and i'm joined on the line by sanjay very much who is an activist in the bhopal campaign and also a survivor of the terrible disaster in one 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 when. i would call it right in the moment. so and well i don't. know why i asked myself so because i had no one with me at the parent meeting at my school so she would be all right and it will come out all right. how did. she was like. irene i really like you in my arms i doubt you would imply that irene ari. sunday was less than two and one time his sister was nine his elder brother so mean
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he was only thirteen and these were the only people left alive in a family of. my family all runaways but i was told later two of them died in hospital that. my mother and father were in the bodies of three sisters who were nearby one of. the other two are missing. they lost their parents. and three sisters and two brothers call in one night. my family members because of this back to. the sister will sometimes image. but it is a godsend it was a thousand eight hundred people and. they got into the people who were carrying out
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bodies convert jews. around one thousand to ten thousand people have died in the next seventy two hours and. twenty five thousand people have died. i remember my god and i'm going to add this and. then ultimately i might drop in the fight and i like other organizations i think. now i realize a lot of the young guys actually. playing that in on all how contaminated the factory how i'm going to do in the soil on the factories they're like take it in the back the legs are not paying attention to our sense.
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why we did this study we just want to assist the experience of chemical contamination within the factory and outside and see if there is a link it's just there why will it isn't just the force of inequality that's the fight because there's two possibilities if i just decided that it didn't it is your little knowledge let's get him and we'll him and mostly in the next it's all very high levels of lead i thought and what he does little baby this almost as if how they did in fact been inventing the plants i think this will do that and you can still see god that is a subset of this is that and yet so it's not surprising that the line has very high levels of the multi. we have received very important documents in this case that i think established very clearly that union carbide knew the advance as early as 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
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that specific knowledge as early as one 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 the waste streams from the plant emptied into the area of the plant known as the solar evaporation pond area. and this is where the waste in toxic sludge we're down to basically and carly 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 grounds for they waste people dependent on the water from the leak so they drank it and it caused an epidemic. union carbide from the design stage that for pulp plant could pollute groundwater they also knew that there was there
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was a surrounding community that used that groundwater for its drinking water supply. so they believe that they can get rid of them off. by evil parading it and then when they had like some kind of sludge they took all of us from. here and there and you see this black lining underneath the ground of this landfill they believe that this kind of lining if there were this landing underneath the ground it can keep the bucket list away from the fire. line and i need the ground everywhere around here. and we believe the solar evaporation ponds continues to be a source of the subsurface water pollution that's now reaching through the arkle for and spreading into the surrounding communities and can be detected as far away
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as three kilometers from the main plant campus so their evacuation what we found very high was clearly you see it was u.v. only an addict only english and was destroyed. william i feel very that there isn't one but that you're going off on the fact you want to do with still being gone damon aided and people are for still being contaminated water because they do not have any and that's why the call for a will remain a source of pollution for this area until it's really a. party that can do that if you are several more of 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
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express by the people of opar. 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 trip. the state government owns the site and together with the central government they are trying to get the site cleaned up union carbide it's now a wholly owned subsidiary. dow chemical and then got in two thousand and one on august third the boards of old carbide approved the burger agreement that will create the world's second largest chemical company and. does complicate things and doesn't because the law on contamination is very clear in india and in the us and he's the principal of the polluter pays principle it 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
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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 riyadh and i don't i don't know i don't know that is one of the water that i get on many of these people. drinking contaminated water you feed it just like one of the larger problems. in the neighborhood and then we've got to walk out of this bomb test bed every foundered 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 least back to my home there was a letter written by my brother. i'm going to die in a few men eggs so. when he was late he was laying on his bed in this room
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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 had to write that thing. and 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 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 there is a war in hills with time but in both the war. beginning. if you'd blame each other for everything when new solution will come. the government blames the company we blame the government the government so first become police the first and most importantly the people who suffer. i don't
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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 are god they he said to me your god means. they have been big people from. so if you are going to listen or billing to help you then what will you be going to do for you. i'm not particular night on the second and third december some gases from the union carbide leaks 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 compounds are to which team were deadly. just like in hiroshima and nagasaki it had an adverse effect on their genes so similarly this adverse
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effect of the gases causing genetic mutation in india they all thought i would like that we don't speak about bhopal because he's not a good image of all india in america they don't want to talk about both because in spite of the fact that there is a wall of a handful the rest i guess mr wong i'm i'm just so i'm mr anderson has retarded if you want a full house. north of new york of course never america. was in the phone population we're looking at really good food being invented and one of the implications of the book and i should mention that wouldn't more than thirty thousand people and the people who are drinking the polluted water think about the problems as can problems that is this is through the to put it in patients industrial. warning basically. all of those are sick and that's not going to get specific governments are not in business to protect the
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population. say they are it's usually a pretty low priority. when take any. somebody's story and the paperwork or the record company story pretty often pollutions. off the loss of the work for the population but the leaders were willing to risk their lives for. a minute it's almost history. the. least want to response in its stock on clearly the government just pimping for dow chemicals and piece of this. same people who have so far stopped justice for the bhopal gas victims. but we strongly feel that on this occasion of the twenty
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seventh anniversary we will be able to destroy the nexus and we will get justice no . lawyer to help me go out to get online and people the other ones will buy that we have a lot of people want to do the credits you can fold and go to the front of the rehab normally look at it that way in grade five years what can you not to get just if that is what this war doesn't need but don't let. this leave the kids like you i was hired to do merger and acquisition for union carbide to bring all of the computer applications on the same platform as douse i saw how a corporation works because they are more concerned about bottom line profit than anything i just decided that i was making more than one profit for just the wrong people and chemicals made the decision purchase union carbide knowing that these liabilities were outstanding so when you purchase the assets of
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a company purchased those liabilities we are 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 law can supply because these events took place in india but the same time the same in law doesn't apply so in effect they're arguing that they're above them so there are international rules . for. course international law has no enforcement laws of course for somebody. if the united states doesn't course i'm not. hurt i would like them a vision take responsibility for their pound. where dime from the water no one is offering clean water they are moochers. dow chemical co to how to go to how to how. agents of dow should be spanked. if you
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look at subject to the jurisdiction of india then you'll have to submit to the american boards and the american courts after news of. his uncle in two thousand and four the supreme court's directed the government to provide clean and safe water up to governments to stage and central has failed to honor the supreme court's order. them on the promise 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 of the water grass applying spices duty and not speak for drinking water all speak up. and dad could buy the british mission control board certified against any high concentrations of coal like you said knowingly this water is what is being supplied to locals to have given their lives.
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offload. the company should be allies but it cannot great risk countries 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 keynote cost union carbide should clean all the poisonous and powerful toxic chemicals that are stored inside the plants get your army to the ground water which is polluted in a radius of three kilometers around the plant to be cleaned and union carbide should pay for a box you speak of to. bring anderson to india bring them here.
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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 jude growing puerto contamination will be more prone to cancers like diseases and you know body holds more money if 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 in the degree of hard wired is able to exist. that's coming out this year a fresh known bailable warrant has been issued for an anderson. unless the
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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 if you're interested just because someone is understandable and i mean they're not they don't have the authority from someone who could lead them government but what they have done is said to be all right if they want this really well and if you read it right it was what it was all that. they were all the survivors in court they're so good at it they've submitted a letter for letter that's all over the legal. one that's coming at us from our research one thing is very clear the union carbide india factory is infected with poison flink it is a poison which will not lead to death just by touching it so i can understand why there might be a pradesh government is saying there is no poison among us but it is also true that
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it's a kind of poison that is leaking into our environment that is. the main thing i'm saying is that the factory should be cleaned as soon as possible. god has given you this word but all the facilities that god has are given everything here by destroyed. felt come on friends join the march with the victims and show that your passion has not pulled down. that has not turned down because we did not get justice and unless we get justice our passion will never come down. every year millions of people dying because of his unburdened the pursuit of profit. in what in bhopal a saying is that you cannot do it you are not allowed to do. because life is sacred
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and that cannot be by late. summer this is my house that's one thing we destroy him from the rest of the world who will get justice from dell company. the twenty fifth anniversary is just a landmark the for your father verse three the first two for diverse three will be as important for the final goal and the goal is to clean the factory from all those toxic effluents which still pull you the water that the people have to drink. and the amazon i want the world to understand the crime of these companies the profits from the analysts projects as the show on t.v. but in the same products boys in our lives will not only. we should never allow down to continue their poisonous business in any other city in the world soon
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this is another good power who not repeated. each any worse really gives us more spirit gives us more encouragement people around the world to help informal five and we get more support every year than the previous year if there is justice and what 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 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 important precedent.
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