you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

december third one thousand nine hundred eighty four the night we can never forget . when the lake edge of and i see gas from this union carbide factory made people sleep forever but. those who are no more today the people they use. those mothers and sisters who were sleeping that night in

their homes. the gas leakage from union carbide made them sleep for ever. anderson go to hell union carbide go to hell.

for sunni 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 your agreement to all demands the fine to continue to. inoculate you 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 a 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 is three forty six tons of waste if that warehouse evidence of thousands of tons of waste on the surface of the fact that provides. 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 with the parishes toxin seeps into the ground around the plant poisoning water supplies. drugs 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 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 the children to be 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 the. still 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 this. mass disaster remain unpunished.

as for. the cruise liner of union carbide. it's not much.

earth a layer of paper a layer of oil and it would still be hot. if you don't think there is grabbers we. are burning. in god made gone pollution is this american drones national that was involved in the war was. in the midst of what's called the green revolution you mean god by decided the best to save manufacturing you need to. get started in the war seventies and the formulation just mixing different best to sides with a back integrated production of methods of say me. and they knew right in seventy

two that the method as without a plan b. . 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 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 got bodies where 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. or because surface which is contaminated and the chemicals which are in the earth needs to be removed and talks of. otherwise the pollution will continue and people will keep using polluted water and that is very dangerous and mark. thank.

you. i'm not and i'm my name is salam bubble but people call me. when i have a small businesses. well 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. of some time later on we noticed that she couldn't sit up on her own or turn over of her kind about meeting poppy and. 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 meaning here.

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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 has an ending because people continue to be there more than hundred

thousand people chronically ill 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 and 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 should 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 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 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 thirst 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 much pain that comes since the guest. that surviving has become a living hell. before

we had no hope of cyber would even survive that we just left everything to god and came to this hospital. rather. 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. 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.

but isn't that rather shaming that for so many years after the terrible tragedy poisonous chemicals were still there name is matt said to me no there's no truth in it there was chemical waste there and it was decided that waste could be disposed of recording to the instructions of the supreme court that there was nothing hazardous for human life then you'll immediately or later on the get go and now we are here to release out a study on the toxic legacy of union got advice factory in hobart and there is

a lot of talk in the government that and we have read some reports that the site is not possible outside the factory he collected groundwater samples we found mostly in one sample which is twenty four times the drinking water standard all the sound of that republic did from the site when heavily contaminated they are going to go to a society chlorinated bill jefferson site and he might not be going to. be believed the robot is not a one time disaster it is a continuing disaster simply because there is a continuing groundwater contamination and. validation of a lot of the why we go to the. why is there is a contradiction in what the government is seen i mean you have to ask the government and i think it's a very good question that the government the indian government is submitting a request for relief. to us and 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 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 plaintiffs are people from the affected community. people who are suffering from health effects. from the eighty's onward. us see costs in every way possible and for a plant that was already unsafe by design straight away to man 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 and. they shut down due to for your mission you know just to save

something like seventy dollars a day which meant that the temperature of the method as a sign that dank was unsafe. behind be a storage tank number six hundred and ten this was the m i c storage tank that leaked and the process vent line of this 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 of the safety systems were turned off 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 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. 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. read 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 monday. 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 would take an extraordinary turn with dramatic developments almost hourly first mr anderson 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 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 visitors then the local police superintendent drove out the startling news that mr anderson and two local union carbide executives were under arrest. arrested mr. and mr anderson. and. the world. there was a decision. by the world. and everybody knew that it was coming for the magistrate and for. there were. several indian wars general who. had 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 the man as they were confined on the house arrest was a. sign of a problem. representative of the u.s. government to lend any assistance possible are you surprised. union carbide has been arrested. to try and solve the problem. look 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 him in. the tragedy. and knows its duty. thousands of 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 to be. could be.

but he just jumped. the indian government has request for extradition of. the us government has denied his request says they want. to face trial. and it was warren anderson who was informed. of safety in the plant all this knowledge.

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