Bhopal Gas Tragedy
BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY
BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY
By: Jessica Turakhia Roll No: 7
The Bhopal Gas Tragedy is considered the world’s worst, industrial catastrophe, and 28 years on, the nightmare still continues for its victims and survivors. 28 years on, they are still asking the same question they asked then – Will they ever get justice?
The night of December 2-3, 1984, continues to evoke very strong emotions across the country as well as abroad, for its far-reaching impact as well as the delayed justice for its victims and survivors. In the early hours of December the 3rd, methyl isocyanate gas leaked out of the Union Carbide India Limited plant in Bhopal. Union Carbide India Limited was the Indian subsidiary of Union Carbide Corporation. For a tragedy of its scale, the details seem very fuzzy. The Madhya Pradesh government puts the death toll at 3787, while other sources go up to 12,000 deaths. This is in addition to the thousands impacted in various other ways by inhaling the gas. The long-term side effects of the gas inhalation are still evident after a quarter of a century past the tragedy. Children are still being born, showing the effects of the gas.
There was a huge international outcry after the disaster, for relief for the effected and to punish those involved. Union Carbide has been found liable for the disaster, but has denied responsibility even claiming the possibility of sabotage. The much awaited verdict on the court case on the Bhopal gas tragedy finally came on the of June 2010. A mere two years of imprisonment for those involved with no word on Warren Anderson, the then Chairman and CEO of Union Carbide.
The Bhopal Gas Tragedy seems just as mired in controversy as it was when it happened. Here are some highlights the events that followed the tragedy.
3rd
BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY
By: Jessica Turakhia Roll No: 7
The Bhopal Gas Tragedy is considered the world’s worst, industrial catastrophe, and 28 years on, the nightmare still continues for its victims and survivors. 28 years on, they are still asking the same question they asked then – Will they ever get justice?
The night of December 2-3, 1984, continues to evoke very strong emotions across the country as well as abroad, for its far-reaching impact as well as the delayed justice for its victims and survivors. In the early hours of December the 3rd, methyl isocyanate gas leaked out of the Union Carbide India Limited plant in Bhopal. Union Carbide India Limited was the Indian subsidiary of Union Carbide Corporation. For a tragedy of its scale, the details seem very fuzzy. The Madhya Pradesh government puts the death toll at 3787, while other sources go up to 12,000 deaths. This is in addition to the thousands impacted in various other ways by inhaling the gas. The long-term side effects of the gas inhalation are still evident after a quarter of a century past the tragedy. Children are still being born, showing the effects of the gas.
There was a huge international outcry after the disaster, for relief for the effected and to punish those involved. Union Carbide has been found liable for the disaster, but has denied responsibility even claiming the possibility of sabotage. The much awaited verdict on the court case on the Bhopal gas tragedy finally came on the of June 2010. A mere two years of imprisonment for those involved with no word on Warren Anderson, the then Chairman and CEO of Union Carbide.
The Bhopal Gas Tragedy seems just as mired in controversy as it was when it happened. Here are some highlights the events that followed the tragedy.
3rd
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