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 laws 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. within a day it wanted to. raise you know just return on a trip familiar so i want to take this opportunity to express my deep sympathy to all of those who were. terrible tragedy unfold. and when i first heard of the reports. they were sketchy at first. by the time. the magnitude of the tragedy. quite a perk 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 with dramatic developments almost hourly. never got to meet the victims of bo powell or indeed his own engineer as he was whisked away in a police c

the twenty fifth anniversary of the tragedy at a 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 express by the people of bhopal. 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 madhya pradesh the state government. and together with the central government they are trying to get the site cleaned up the union carbide is now a wholly owned subsidiary. two thousand and one third the boards of both carbide approve the burger agreement create the world's second largest chemical. does complicate things and doesn't because the law on contamination is very clear in india and in the us and which is the principal polluter pays principle is the idea under inte