Dear donnerblitzen,
The chemical plant disaster you are referring to was, without any
doubt, the Bhopal disaster.
On the night from December 2 to 3, 1984, enormous quantities of highly
poisonous methyl isocyanate gas leaked leaked out of the pesticide
factory of Union Carbide in Bhopal, India. Of the inhabitants of the
Bhopal area, an estimated number of 10,000 died as a direct result of
having contact with this gas in the time following, and still people
are dying each day. Additionally, hundereds of thousands inhabitants
suffer from the late effects such as acute breathlessness, brain
damage, menstrual chaos, loss of immunity; these defects lead to death
extremely often among the affected persons.
The company owning the Bhopal chemical plant was Union Carbide, a
company from the USA, today owned by Dow Chemical Company. The person
regarded responsible by the Indian government was Mr. Warren Anderson,
CEO of Union Carbide at that time. He was recently found living in New
York State; India demands his extradition in order to charge him for
the incident which cost thousands of lives.
To find out more about the Bhopal disaster, please visit tese
websites:
Wanted CEO Found Living in Luxury in the Hamptons, by Greenpeace USA,
Sept. 4, 2002
http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/features/anderson_foundtext.htm
Bhopal, by the Bhopal Movement
http://www.ucaqld.com.au/community/bhopal/
Dow Chemical, owner of Union Carbide today (includes no mention of
Bhopal)
http://www.dow.com/Homepage/index.html
Search terms used:
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bhopal:
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extradition ceo bhopal:
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Hope this is what you wanted to know!
Regards,
Scriptor |
