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...Shanti Debi thinks it was the night her husband Kishen Chand went blind that she first saw things clearly. Awakened by her daughter screaming that she was suffocating, Shanti thought she could smell burning chilies. The next moment, everyone was being sick. And right then, Shanti's life, and Bhopal's social fabric, began to disintegrate. "Everybody just rushed out," she says. "Nobody cared about anybody else. I even left my own children. Everybody just cared about saving their own life...
...night of Dec. 2-3, 1984, Bhopal suffered one of the worst industrial accidents of modern times. On the edge of town stood a seven-hectare pesticide plant owned by the U.S. company Union Carbide. Around midnight, water passed through a safety valve that had been deactivated and poured into a 13-meter steel tank of methyl isocyanate (MIC). The water caused a superheated reaction, turning the MIC into a deadly gas; the tank ruptured, breaking clean through its concrete housing; and 27 tons of MIC was released into the gentle southerly breeze that made kite-flying Bhopal's favorite...
...Bhopal's tragedy?dreadful enough?was then compounded. In the two decades since the disaster, the survivors have seen a more insidious venom spread across the town. Without a healthy work force, the economy stagnated as businesses and factories such as Chand's ice-cream factory, which had paid for a five-bedroom house and three servants, closed overnight. Replacing them were an army of quacks, fly-by-night nongovernmental organizations and lawyers. After fighting compensation claims in the courts for five years, Union Carbide paid out $470 million, but victims often received only $500 for injuries...
...majority of the population, which was suppressed by the dictator and his followers. Now that Saddam is out and others are in power, both Sunnis and Shi'ites are disappointed and will start to fight hand in hand for an independent Muslim country. Sidha Baghavatha Bhopal, India...
...Hussein and the country's Shi'ite majority, which was suppressed by the dictator and his followers. Now that Saddam is out and others are in power, both Sunnis and Shi'ites are disappointed and will start to fight hand in hand for an independent Muslim country. SIDHA BAGHAVATHA Bhopal, India...