04-08-2009, 10:28 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-08-2009, 12:21 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
An Indian court has reissued an arrest warrant for the former boss of the US chemical company responsible for the Bhopal disaster twenty-five years ago. The court urged the Indian government to seek the extradition of Warren Anderson from the United States. Anderson was head of Union Carbide when its pesticide factory at Bhopal leaked tons of poison gas, killing thousands of people. Union Carbide is now owned by Dow Chemical. Satinath Sarangi runs a clinic in Bhopal that provides survivors of the disaster with free medical and community healthcare.
Satinath Sarangi: “Within the first three days, between eight and ten thousand people died. And then, in the subsequent years, more people died because of the damage that was caused to almost every organ in the body, because the poisons that people inhaled, they went into the bloodstream through their lungs and stayed there and damaged their lungs, their brain, liver, kidneys. And even more than 100,000 people still have chronic illnesses from that exposure. The next generation, we know, is marked by Carbide’s poisons.”
[Note: Anderson and all the Western executives left by plane a few days after the disaster. They have refused to submit to trial in India or pay an meaningful reparations. They also claim they were not members of the company responsible - a blatent lie. If my memory serves, UC after much public protest offered [without admitting guilt] $500 per death and a lesser sum per ill in Bhopal - hope it didn't 'break them'. Big hearts!
Satinath Sarangi: “Within the first three days, between eight and ten thousand people died. And then, in the subsequent years, more people died because of the damage that was caused to almost every organ in the body, because the poisons that people inhaled, they went into the bloodstream through their lungs and stayed there and damaged their lungs, their brain, liver, kidneys. And even more than 100,000 people still have chronic illnesses from that exposure. The next generation, we know, is marked by Carbide’s poisons.”
[Note: Anderson and all the Western executives left by plane a few days after the disaster. They have refused to submit to trial in India or pay an meaningful reparations. They also claim they were not members of the company responsible - a blatent lie. If my memory serves, UC after much public protest offered [without admitting guilt] $500 per death and a lesser sum per ill in Bhopal - hope it didn't 'break them'. Big hearts!
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass