had been in a condition where a source of pollution the most recent study that was done shows that this water pollution spreading. in the sea as five hundred dollars. unpunished.

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a buffer zone something russia and china strongly object to heavy battles continue . plus chancellor merkel is in china to drum up business and convince beijing that the euro is on the road to recovery beijing says we can eurozone states need to impose further cuts and reforms. with the news team with more on those stories in half an hour from now in the meantime we take a step back to commemorate the victims of one of the world's worst industrial disaster and its terrifying legacy that's in our special report.

december third one thousand nine hundred eighty four the night we can never forget . when the leakage of am i see gas from this union carbide factory made people sleep forever. those who are no more today the people they use. those mothers and sisters who were sleeping bad 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. the entire community split up with

a problem that is why we will keep fighting until you agree until all demands the fine to continue. and i do 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 of book. on up on the contaminated water is making our lives how they're going to get even that small. holdings of tons of stuff that we just live better if it is three forty six tons of waste that if that warehouse additives of thousands of tons of waste on

the surface of the factory provide. this. 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 and spreading more than three and a half thousand died in the immediate aftermath of the disaster after inhaling the fuse thousands more would have parishes trucks and seats 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 a 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. 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. pollution is committing crimes crimes on a large number of people. respiratory problems heart problems i problems. the

ratio of patients are increasing by the day. people are suffering the. people dying and the next generation is getting infected with horrific but can dangle malformations they're born with so the fact that the suffering hasn't ended and that injustice continues and the individuals in agencies responsible for these. mass disasters remain unpunished.

cruise liner of union carbide three. it's not much to margret. earth a layer of paper a layer of oil and it would still be hot. if you don't think we. are burning.

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. decided the best to save manufacturing. started in the war seventies and the formulation just mixing different pesticides. back in degraded production of methods of same. and they knew right in seventy two where the methods without a plan b. . would be untested technology in their own words and that its safety was not known.

fifty thousand injured or counted but up to two hundred thousand may be affected in the long term cerebral palsy has begun to illustrate 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. if there are many chemicals found in the water around here which were once used in the union carbide factory. 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 to. go through to get her to surface which is contaminated and the chemicals which are in

the earth needs to be removed and detox a fight or. 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 salome and. two i have a small business where you know if we are daily wage earners. but

i have no savings here walkway whatever does get saved is spent on medicine. her condition used to be much better. she used to go to the market go for walks earn play around with. she used to laugh and have fun there were no problems.

with some time later on we noticed that she couldn't sit up on her own or turnover of the kind of what meaning what 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 in here.

today we are at a point where we wanted to do a lot but we can't do much and when you go. for the people that has been an end because people continue to be there more than hundred thousand people still chronically ill and there's at least 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 will stop. 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. here at the hospital money talks. you give money and to be looked after we are poor people we don't have money and that's why no one looks after us even if your child is dying.

yes we have spent 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 metson 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 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 this hunger is this sickness look at those gutter tents couldn't fall sick

by drinking that water. right now people are not getting proper treatment they have built beaked our hospitals but they give priority to people who have money but. 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 comes since the gas tragedy that surviving has become a living hell. before we had no hope that cyber would even survive we just left everything to god. came

to this hospital. slowly her condition has improved and we realize these injections are very powerful . the doctor told us the same thing about the injections and once this course is over another will begin and those are supposed to be even better than. the doctor said she's almost conscious now. when we came here we were very sad and when we leave i just want us to be very happy here.

but isn't that rather shaming for so many years after that terrible tragedy poisonous chemicals were still there. for training no there's no truth in it there was chemical waste and it was decided that waste could be disposed of put into the instructions of the supreme court so there was nothing because of the risk of human life that you'll immediately i'm told later on the get go and i'll be at yesterday's out of study on the toxic legacy of union got by factory and will bought them that is lot of stock in the government that and we have some people

that decide things not the thing outside the factory we collected eleven ground water samples we found mostly in one thousand with the safety board by drinking water and standing all the sound was that the selected from the site when heavily contaminated obviously but the cycled any had been hit by suicide and having to let me go through. the belief that obama is not a one time disaster it is a continuing disaster simply because that is if i didn't ground was a combination and combination of a lot of it the whole body because of your. life 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 about the government the indian government is submitting a request for release. to us we're saying we support that we want the 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

politicians makes a statement like this this is union carbide submitted to the american court and says book even their own government says there's no problem this is a class action case has been pending since ninety nine. the plaintiffs are people from the affected community. people who are suffering from health effects. from the eighty's onward. us costs in every way possible and. that was already by design straightaway to man production of state. which was provided here such as the refrigeration system for the storage tank where am i see how to be kept at a low temperature for safety reasons it was all shut down in may one thousand nine hundred four. they shut down due to. something like seventy dollars

a day which meant that the. bank was unsafe. behind be a storage tank number six hundred ten this was the storage tank that leaked the line of the. pressure. for this reason water travelled 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 well certainly contributing to the disaster the fact that he was not being stored as it was originally required to be stored at zero degree celsius that fact contributed so that you really had 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 would gret. but it was not in control of the workers and. their work. 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 to day it. was you know just returned on a trip familiar so i want to take this opportunity to express my deep sympathy for all of the. terrible tragedy unfold. and when i first heard of the reports. they were sketchy at first. by the time tuesday morning. the magnitude of the

tragedy. quite apparent so friday morning. 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. never got to meet the victims of power or indeed his own engineer as he was whisked away in a police caught to the company's guesthouse in the hills about the town we. i think he came because in part it was his responsibility to be. i think. i would do if i was him i would be responsible mr anderson had taken refuge behind the gates and was definitely not receiving visits then the local police superintendent

. the startling news that mr anderson and two local union carbide executives and the rest of the. rest of. us exactly news arrested. the world. there was. the world. and everybody knew that it was coming. and. there were. general who. had been arrested on charges of criminal and constructive. offenses carrying a possible two year jail sentence and theoretically. even the company's lawyer could see them as they were confined. saw the problem.

as government as possible. to try and solve the problem. at the magic pradesh state headquarters a senior official confirmed the government would be seeking compensation for damages they launched a bitter attack on union carbide this government going after him in. the tragedy. and knows its. innocent citizens whose lives have been slowed. dramatically affected. by cruel. on the part of the management of the union. of course.

but he just. has request for extradition and. the u.s. government has denied that request. and anderson to face trial. the proponents of the method that society of black good one anderson look will do and it was one anderson who was informed about victoria dating condition of safety in the plant all this while his personal knowledge.