Word: bhopal
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...facility, one of many plants that dot West Virginia's "Chemical Valley," has been a source of public concern for almost a year. Its output includes methyl isocyanate (MIC), the gas that killed 2,500 people and injured 200,000 when it leaked from a Union Carbide unit in Bhopal, India, last December. After that horror, the manufacturer shut down Institute's MIC unit for five months and spent $5 million improving its safety and production equipment...
Khan was born in 1936, in Bhopal, India, 11 years before the founding of Pakistan. His youth was shaped by the communal violence that plagued India after the end of colonization. He has told his biographer of witnessing the massacre of Muslims by Hindus that followed the partition of the old British colony in 1947. By the time he immigrated to Pakistan in 1952, Khan had developed an interest in science and a loathing for India...
...Chemical was asked to report on its management’s new initiatives for survivors of the 1984 chemical accident at a plant in Bhopal, India owned by Union Carbide—now a subsidiary of Dow Chemical. The proposal said Dow Chemical has a “humanitarian responsibility” to address the disaster victims’ concerns, regardless of a lack of current liability...
...Abdul Jabbar Khan, of the Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Sanghathan, a group for female victims, says the disaster poisoned Bhopal's soul. "The shame of Bhopal," he says, "is that there's no humanity here today. People began to spend their lives in queues, for ration cards, for hospital, for compensation. We became a city of victims, a city of beggars, with nobody caring for anyone else." Psychiatrist Santosh Tandon, 45, said the "disempowering" effect of the catastrophe, which left a whole city unable to provide for itself, was overwhelming. "The gas took away Bhopal's spirit," he says...
...community. "I've learned how people really are," she says. "The people who used to work in our factory blank me in the street. Even my relatives didn't want to help me." She says she has learned to adjust to poverty but not to the other changes in Bhopal. "After Kishen died, I faced a lot of problems. So did a lot of families. But people were just asking for money, always money. I was never begging for money. I was begging for love. And Bhopal had none...