Monday, December 03, 2012

Bhopal: 28 years of 'toxic' neglect


On this day in 1984 3,500 people were killed at Bhopal in the world's worst industrial disaster and an estimated 25,000 maimed and diseased died over the next two decades. Never forget.
... toxic waste still lying around the Union Carbide plant, a gas victims' widows colony that looks like a disaster zone itself, a post-1984 generation that suffers from physical and mental impairments by virtue of being born to those who inhaled the deadly methyl isocyanate and a 'system' that pays a yearly lip service...

More at Hindustan Times

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