tv [untitled] November 12, 2012 6:30pm-7:00pm EST
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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.
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to continue to. inoculate you 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. all those of tons of stuff that we just live betty that is three forty six tons of waste that in that warehouse additives of thousands of tons of waste on the surface of the fact that provides. it was the plant that was responsible for
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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. dry out but it is being twenty seven years and there is still no proper or security talks 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
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drinking one hundred percent pure water these are complete lies groups working with affected children see that children today are 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 suffering. still people
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in god made globalization is this american transnational that was involved in the water wars. in the midst of what's called the green revolution by decided to locate the best to save manufacturing you need to. get started in the work seventy's and the formulation just mixing different bits to say with the back can be greeted with option of methods of same. and they knew right in seventy two their method as was that a plan they were building in. would be untested technology in their own words and that its safety was not known.
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fifty thousand injured have been counted but up to two hundred thousand may be affected in the long term cerebral palsy has begun to effect 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 at center 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. because surface which is contaminated and the chemicals which are in the earth needs to be removed and talks of very good rear otherwise the pollution will
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of some time later on we noticed but she couldn't sit up on her own or turnover of your kind about meaning but here. slowly she started looking depressed. when we would talk to her and 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. download the official. language stream quality and enjoy your favorites. to watch on t.v. . any time.
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today we are at a point where we wanted to do a lot but we can't do much. for the people that. because people continue to be there more than hundred thousand people 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 then you do not know when it will stop.
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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 but now i'm. here at the hospital money talks. you give money and you'll be looked after. 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 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.
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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 for it 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 is the 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
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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 guest. tragedy that surviving has become a living hell. before we had no hope of a cyber would even survive that we just left everything to god and came to this hospital. slowly her condition has improved and we realize these injections are very powerful
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. and 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 to lay. the doctor said she's almost conscious now. when we came here we were very sad and when we least i just want us to be very happy because of that idea.
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but isn't that rather shaming for so many years after that terrible tragedy poisonous chemicals were still there. and said jamie no there's no truth in it there was chemical waste there and it was decided that waste could be disposed of put into the instructions of the supreme court so there was nothing has to discuss human life that your immediately or later on the good will and i'll be here to believe that a study on the toxic legacy of union carbide factory involved are embedded lot of stock in the government that and we have some people that decide not the thing outside the factory we collected eleven groundwater sample we found mostly in one thousand displaced people by the drinking water standard all the samples that we got lifted from the site then heavily contaminated obviously but the backbone is
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a busy pesticide and when the let me go through. this it is a whole lot of is not a one time disaster it is a continuing disaster simply because that is exciting ground water going down in a sense and then banning the sale of a lot of the whole body because of your. lies there is a contradiction in what the guy. government is saying that we do have to ask the government and i think it's a very good question that the government. is submitting a request for relief. to us 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 the 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
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plaintiffs are people from the affected community. people who are suffering from health effects. from the eighty's onward. u.s.c. costs in every way possible and far and that was already by design straight away it meant production of safety. all the safety equipment 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 was all shut down in may one thousand nine hundred four. they shut down the new me just to save something like seventy dollars a day which meant that the temperature of the method as a sign of dank was unsafe. behind be a storage tank number six hundred ten this was the m i c storage tank that leaked and
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the process vent line of the tank was faulty and could not hold 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 degrees 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 would. but i was not in control of the workers and. everything was in control of higher management.
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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 one and. raise 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 the third of december. they were sketchy at first . by the time tuesday morning. the magnitude of. quite apparent friday morning took that early flight and we arrived and.
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there was a subdued crowd waiting at the airport to be union carbide chairman warren anderson but the day's events which would take an extraordinary turn with dramatic developments almost hourly first never got to meet the victims of pope 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. came i think he came because it was his response of if you could be here. 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 visitors then the local police superintendent drove out the startling news that mr anderson and two local union carbide executives were under arrest. the rest ok can you tell us exactly who the arrested mr. and mr. imus.
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yes there was a decision. by the world. and everybody knew that it was coming. and for. that we were charged with violations of several illinois general who. had been arrested on charges of criminal and constructive chance offenses carrying a possible two year jail sentence and theoretically no chance of bail even the company's lawyer could see the man as they were confined. saw the problem. the u.s. government. to try and solve a problem. that looked at the magic pradesh state headquarters the senior official
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confirmed the government would be seeking compensation for damages and they launched a bitter attack on union carbide this government cannot remain. with the tragedy. and knows its. innocent citizens whose lives have been slowed. dramatically affected. by a cruel. on the part of the management of the union. of course he got a big. jump . and has request for extradition of. the us government has denied that request. warren anderson to face trial.
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the proposal for the method that society had a good one anderson in the building was warren anderson who was informed about the . condition of safety in the plant all this while his bozo knowledge. of the. sundance technology innovation all the rest of the women's from around russia we've gone to the future covered.
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