Bhopal: A Tragedy Many Times Greater than 9-11

[UdoKier]

Since there is an apologist for Union Carbide posting misinformation about the horrrible disaster that dwarfed 9-11 in scope, I thought I'd post a bit of info on the disaster that America has barely noticed for 20+ years. (While acting as though 9-11 was the worst thing to ever happen on earth...)

http://web.mid-day.com/news/nation/2002/december/38209.htm

The report said Union Carbide, now taken over by Dow Chemical, was forced to release the documents last month by a court in New York state that was hearing a class action suit filed by Bhopal survivors in 1999.

The internal documents contradict earlier claims of the company that the accident was an act of sabotage and not due to faulty design, New Scientist said.

(snip)

"Regardless of how the water got into the MIC, the runaway reaction should have been contained," New Scientist article said. "It was not, largely because Bhopal had far more limited emergency equipment than Carbide's US plant."

Carbide's evasion of fulfilling its responsibility.
http://www.prithvisolutions.com/AIDConf2003/Bhopal_FAQs.htm


Carbide killed over 20,000 people with its blase attitudes. Tens of thousandds more continue to suffer the after-effects. This was a disaster many times more significant than 9-11, but of course, being brown and foreign, the victims of Bhopal get almost no interest here.