Word: bhopal
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...industrial accident in history compares with the devastation caused on a December night in 1984, when 45 tons of poison gas leaked from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. The deadly methyl isocyanate, a pesticide ingredient, killed more than 3,400 people and injured 200,000. The Indian government charged the company with negligence, brought murder charges against its chief executive, Warren Anderson, and demanded $3.3 billion to settle claims by victims and their families...
...demonstration in Bhopal, some 200 women carried placards reading THE GOVERNMENT HAS BETRAYED US. Others called for the hanging of those responsible for the Bhopal leak. The main opposition party in the Indian legislature branded the settlement "a total sellout by the government...
...sixties, Eddie Adams photographed Nguyen Ngoc Loan as he pulled a trigger inches from a Vietcong prisoner's head. Images of war's ravages in the Middle East, the deadly effects of the Union Carbide gas leak in Bhopal, India, and the Challenger explosion have all been presented to the public eye. Our heart strings have been pulled, but our limits may have been reached. Larry Burrows, a war photographer who covered the Vietnam War, said it best: "What's the hardest thing of all? It's to keep feeling. Yet if you feel too much... you'd crack...
...small balm in the face of pictures showing lifeless children plucked from the Persian Gulf. But there is something disturbing when a great nation finds itself mute in the face of its own complicity in disaster. Corporations are not expected to show soul, yet immediately after the Bhopal disaster the chairman of Union Carbide took the risk of making a symbolic pilgrimage to India. Personal gestures of atonement are commonplace in other cultures: the president of Japan Air Lines resigned because 520 passengers perished in a 1985 plane crash...
...justice -- or bad law? That was the question last week after an Indian district court judge ordered the Union Carbide Corp. to pay $270 million in interim relief to the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak. The disaster claimed 2,866 lives and left some 40,000 people seriously injured. In a 17- page ruling, Judge M.W. Deo argued that while "diverse loud voices" hold up a settlement, the "poor gas victims" continue to suffer. The courts, he said, have "inherent powers" to administer justice...