From Sathyu’s Introduction to Bhopal for Young People The people poisoned by Union Carbide and Dow Chemical have fought and continue to fight a tough battle to regain their dignity and get justice. Their dignity was […]
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From Sathyu’s Introduction to Bhopal for Young People Instead of helping the people of Bhopal, the Indian Government put more energy and effort into downplaying the disaster. Top officials in the state government asked truck drivers
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From The Times of India online: Subodh Varma, TNN | Mar 16, 2011, 02.41am IST The spectre of lethal radioactive fallout from the damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima in Japan continued to haunt the country as
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From Sathyu’s Introduction to Bhopal for Young People In 2001, another US corporation, The Dow Chemical Company took over Union Carbide Corporation. Dow and Union Carbide have long been in the same business. Both produced poisonous
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From Sathyu’s Introduction to Bhopal for Young People The bosses in the USA were shocked to hear about the disaster, which is weird because they knew two years previously that it was a disaster waiting to
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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