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abstract |
Today, 2nd December, marks yet another anniversary of the gas leak at the Union Carbide
chemical plant in Bhopal, India – now, twenty seven years ago, in 1984. But this is
not a matter of historical record – for remarkably, disgustingly, not only has justice
for the victims still not been secured, but even as we write, further injustices continue
to pour down on the people of that city. Satinath Sarangi, a leading Bhopali-based
actvist, has just told us this:
"The perpetrators of the worst corporate massacre in history are absconding from
charges of culpable homicide for the last 19 years and the corporation that is sheltering
this fugitive from justice for the last 10 years is now the main sponsor of London
Olympics 2012. It has been 27 years and the victims of Bhopal are still awaiting justice;
time the international community sat up and took notice." |