From Sathyu’s Introduction to Bhopal for Young People Samples of groundwater have been tested by both government officials and non government organisations such as Greenpeace and found to contain high levels of chemicals that cause cancers […]

From Sathyu’s Introduction to Bhopal for Young People The pesticide factory that leaked the poisonous gases on that terrible night was shut down soon after. But the factory continues to poison the land and the groundwater

From Sathyu’s Introduction to Bhopal for Young People Seven out of ten women and men who were exposed to Union Carbide’s poisonous gases that night did hard physical labour (digging holes in the ground with axes,

From Sathyu’s Introduction to Bhopal for Young People Well over half a million people were exposed. Those exposed had swollen eyes and they were gasping for breath. Medical research showed that once people inhaled the poisonous

From Sathyu’s Introduction to Bhopal for Young People As people ran in the direction of the gas they inhaled more and more of the poison and fell down dead. Many children holding on to their parents

From Sathyu’s Introduction to Bhopal for Young People Most people living close the factory were very poor people. Their houses were made of mud and they had thatched roofs. When the poisonous gases leaked from the

From Sathyu’s Introduction to Bhopal for Young People On December 2nd, 1984 a few workers were told to clean the pipes that carried the deadly MIC. The cleaning was being done by a high pressure jet

From Sathyu’s Introduction to Bhopal for Young People The effect of all this cost cutting soon began to show. Many workers were exposed to dangerous gases and had to be hospitalised, and in December 1981 one

From Sathyu’s Introduction to Bhopal for Young People Union Carbide already had a pesticide factory running in a small town in the USA called Institute in West Virginia. When they built the factory in Bhopal, instead

From Sathyu’s Introduction to Bhopal for Young People Union Carbide (UCC) built its pesticide factory in Bhopal while the Green Revolution was at its peak. The people managing the corporation thought that because farmers in Madhya

From Sathyu’s Introduction to Bhopal for Young People Cunning as they were, these corporations called this kind of agriculture using chemicals – the ‘Green Revolution’. They claimed that the Green Revolution would guarantee that there was

From Sathyu’s Introduction to Bhopal for Young People About 50 years ago, a few large corporations pushed forward a claim that if farmers used synthetic chemicals as fertilizers they could increase food production, and if they