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in. 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 but. those who are no more today the people they used. those mothers and sisters who were sleeping bad night in
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their homes. the gas leakage from union carbide made them sleep forever. anderson go to hell union carbide go to hell.
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for so many years who's been drinking poisonous water even today the water is still poisonous and all of our children are sick. of them and the entire community split up with a problem that is why we will keep fighting until you are granted all demands the fine to continue. inoculated for a gas leak from a union carbide corp 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.
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on up on the contaminated water is making our lives how they're going to get even that. oh these are the kinds of stuff that we just live betty because three forty six tons of waste that in that warehouse additives of thousands of tons of waste 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 and spreading more than three and a half thousand died in the immediate aftermath of the disaster after inhaling the fuse thousands more were to perish is toxin seeps into the ground around the plant poisoning water supplies. dry out but it has been twenty seven years
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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 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
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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 the. still people dying and the next generation is getting infected with horrific but condemned to malformations they're born with the fact that the suffering hasn't ended and that injustice continues and the individuals and agencies responsible for these. mass disasters remain unpunished.
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as for. the cruise liner of your new carbides. it's not much.
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earth a layer of paper a layer of oil and it would still be on. if you don't think we. are burning. in god made globalization is this the 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 seventies of the formulation just mixing different bits to sides with the back can be greeted with auction of methods the same. and
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they knew right in seventy two their method as authentic bland they were believing it. would be untested technology in their own words and that its safety was not known. fifty thousand injured have been counted but up to two hundred thousand may be affected in the long term cerebral palsy has begun to wish to 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 and sent word for a funeral pyres is becoming scarce so fifty bodies are being burnt at a time in mass cremations.
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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 a fight on about the rear otherwise the pollution will continue and people will keep using polluted water and that is very dangerous and mark.
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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 what we are daily wage earners. but i have no savings here walking no one ever does get saved is spent on medicine.
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her condition used to be much better. she used to go to the market go for walks earn play around. she used to laugh and have fun there were no problems. of some time later on we noticed but she couldn't sit up on her own or turn over your kind of what medium but here. slowly she started looking depressed. 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 me here.
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going. on today we are at a point where we wanted to do a lot but we can't do much. for
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the people that has an ending because people continue to be there more than hundred thousand people. and there's a 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. in my eyes this hospital is of no use all the doctors here use this 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. if you give money and you'll be looked after. we are
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poor people and we don't have money and that's why no one looks after us even if your child is dying. we 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 for it at the end of the day all of the
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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 on hospitals but they give priority to people who have money but. poor people get no preference. bhopal 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
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much pain that comes since the guest. tragedy that surviving has become a leave in hell. before we had no hope of 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 . 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.
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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 nothing for cheney 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 has to discuss
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human life that you'll immediately i'm told later on in the group and now the idea today that a study on the toxic legacy of union got by factory involved bought and then lot of thought in the government that and we have met some people that decide not the thing outside the factory we collected eleven groundwater sample we found mostly in one thousand the displaced people find that drinking water and spending all the sound was that he selected from the site when heavily contaminated they obviously but this guy slowly need to give us insight and wisdom 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 groundwater contamination and combination of a minute a whole bunch 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 that the government union government is submitting
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a request for relief. to us we're saying we support this we want the union carbide to clean up this plant and the. 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 union carbide submitted to the american court and says look even their own government says there's no problem this is a class action case has been pending since one thousand nine hundred nine. the 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. that was already by design straight away it meant reduction of safety. the safety equipment which was provided here such as
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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. just to save something like seventy dollars a day which meant that the. dank was unsafe. behind be a storage tank number six hundred ten this was the storage tank that leaked the process vent line of the 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 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 celcius
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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 grant. but it was not in control of the workers and. their vote because 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 one and. raise you know just returned on a trip familiar so i want to take this opportunity to express my deep sympathy to
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all of those who were involved in the terrible tragedy unfold. and when i first heard of the reports on the third of december. they were sketchy at first. by the time tuesday morning. the magnitude of the tragedy. quite apparent friday morning took that early flight and we arrived. there was a subdued crowd waiting at the airport to lobby union carbide chairman warren anderson but the day's events which had taken extraordinary turn with dramatic developments almost hourly first mr addison never got to meet the victims of or indeed his own engineers he was whisked away in a police car to the company's guest house in the hills about the town we.
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came i think he came because in part it was his responsibility to 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 with the startling news that mr anderson and two local union carbide executives were on down the rest of. the rest can you tell us exactly who the arrested mr. and mr. really. there was. by the world. and everybody knew that it was coming from. and. there were. several indian wars general who. had
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been arrested on charges of criminal and constructive. offenses carrying a possible two year jail sentence and theoretically no chance of bail even the company's lawyer could see them as they were confined. problem. the u.s. government. trying to. solve a problem. that little at the magic pradesh state headquarters a senior official confirmed the government would be seeking compensation for damages launched a bitter attack on union carbide this government going after a minute. of 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
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he. promised to. jump. the. request for extradition of. the us government has denied his request says they were. send warren anderson to face trial. the proposal for the method i cited black good one anderson we will be i need was one anderson was informed about the duty of it being a condition of safety in the plant all this while there is both the knowledge.
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