Bhopal Disaster Dec. 3, 1984

The numbers of deaths resulting from the world's worst industrial accident are staggering. While survivors continue to suffer from the effects of contamination Dow Chemical thrives.

More than 7,000 people died within a matter of days when toxic gases leaked from a chemical plant in Bhopal, India on the night of 2/3 December 1984. Over the last 21 years exposure to the toxins has resulted in the deaths of a further 15,000 people as well as chronic and debilitating illnesses for thousands of others for which treatment is largely ineffective.The disaster shocked the world and raised fundamental questions about government and corporate responsibility for industrial accidents that devastate human life and local environments. Yet 21 years later, the survivors still await just compensation, adequate medical assistance and treatment, and comprehensive economic and social rehabilitation.
The plant site, has still not been cleaned up. As a result, toxic wastes
continue to pollute the environment and contaminate water that surrounding communities rely on.

- From Amnesty International's report Clouds Of Injustice: Bhopal 20 years on

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