Oh meary ALLAH, it is very sad 
We had an entire chapter on the chemical reactions that took place and a chapter devoted to it in alevels chemistry
yes…the whole world would remember 9/11 victumz for centuriez…but no 1 would remember these ppl…hell no 1 did now either… 
livez of our ppl are worth no more than a dog…even 4 westernerz and some of our ppl dogz are nore precious on TLC, bhoopal-incident was ranked somewhere in the top-10…and yet we don’t c any mentioning of it in any newzpaper / on any newz-channel … these ppl are gone and have been forgotten…simple as that…
Rab Rakha
DerVaisH
oh…4got to appreciate your effort kaki…
thanx 4 posting te sharing :k:
may God bless u all…
Rab Rakha
DerVaisH
nadia Jee ..
I actually read the whole thread....
sighz....
thanks for sharing this.....
The Bhopal incident was truly shocking and disturbing. :-(. We know the reasons why companies such as Union Carbide operate in 3rd world countries such as India.. they have very low cost labour forces, non existent/non-enforced health and safety regulations and they also have minimal safety facilities; all these factors mean less expenditure and cost effectiveness for corporate shareholders.
The gas leak at the Bhopal plant, killed up to 20,000 people and caused permanent injury to approx 40,000 others (actual figures must be much higher); they got away with this with the full intransigence of the Indian government which sold out the legal rights of 1000's of victims against union carbide... WHAT IF this had occurred in the US, I wonder how many prosecutions there would of been and how much compensation the victims would have been entitled to... I think ITS TIME for the Indians to wake up and stop this charade, the Government must come out publicly and condemn foreign trade policies which advocate cheaply run chemical plants which blatantly disregard environmental / Health and Safety issues. Moral of the story... Is the life of an Indian worth less than a life of an American??..
A CASE study on the Bhopal Disaster can be viewed at http://www.american.edu/TED/BHOPAL.HTM . An excerpt of the study follows:
Furthermore, “Carbide persistently shows ‘wanton and wilful
disregard for the health and safety of its workers and the communities in which it operates’”(New Statesman and Society, “Surviving…” p.5). Additionally, a scientific report published by two U.S. organizations, the National Toxic Campaign and the international Council on Public Affairs, Union Carbide continues to be " ‘a major discharger of toxic substances into the environment, and a major generator of hazardous waste’. In 1988, the company generated more than 300 million pounds of hazardous waste - an increase of 70 million compared with 1987" (New Statesman and Society, “Surviving…” p.5).
Carbide had dropped the safety standards at the Bhopal plant wellbelow those it maintained at a nearly identical facility in West Virginia. It is also important to note here that Carbide was able to operate its deteriorating plant because industrial safety and environmental laws and regulations were lacking or were not strictly enforced by the state of Madhya Pradesh or the Indian government making them indirectly responsible for the tragedy at Bhopal.
oh my God :(
really sad
Update on the Bhopal tragedy - good to see some investors with morals. Wish our part of the world had more people who stood up for principles.
“Published on Wednesday, November 26, 2003 by OneWorld.net
Investors Fault Dow Chemical for ‘Hiroshima of Chemical Industry’
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A shareholder resolution was filed Tuesday with the Dow Chemical Company on behalf of the Brethren Benefit Trust (the financial arm of the Church of the Brethren), which owns $330,000 worth of stock in the company, asking Dow to describe what it has done to address the lingering concerns of the estimated 120,000 to 150,000 people left chronically ill by a gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide factory in India in 1984.
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A $470 million compensation package provided by Union Carbide amounts to approximately nine cents per day per person over the nineteen years since the incident occurred, “a pathetically inadequate amount, given the economic and health needs of the survivors,” according to the Campaign’s Tim Edwards.
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Very sad...
whenever I see these picture, its makes my mind pretty sick...
ppl say that 9/11 was the worst massacre of modern era, those ppl have clearly forgotten Bhopal and Chernobyl.... because those were blunders of 1st world nations....how many ppl died and how many still face difficulties in there lives.only GOD knows well...
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*Originally posted by coOoLBreeze: *
whenever I see these picture, its makes my mind pretty sick...
ppl say that 9/11 was the worst massacre of modern era, those ppl have clearly forgotten Bhopal and Chernobyl.... because those were blunders of 1st world nations....how many ppl died and how many still face difficulties in there lives.only GOD knows well...
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How about Herosheema and Nagasaki ?
Khair, every human has life...so is sad for all!
Nadia,
I acn't see photos, is there anyway u can upload them again ? plz
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Here are all of them with the exception of one that i couldn't manage to upload:
A tiny victim - burial of an unknown child
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Survivors of the disaster standing in front of the factory just 24 hours after the lethal gas leak. Their eyes and lungs had been badly damaged by exposure to the gas.
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A husband carries the body of his wife past the deserted industrial plant. The gas leaks had killed her the night before.
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Children awaiting cremation. Due to the large number of deceased people, it was necessary to ID the bodies as quickly as possible - thus identification labels had to be pasted onto these childrens' foreheads.
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Young Leela as she was about to be buried.
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There were so many dead bodies that availability of places for burial became a problem. Mohammad Aziz, looking at some skeletons that had come out of the graves; in his words: I remember making three tiered graves. There was no option but to pile up one body on top of another. In those three to four days we must have buried more than 4,000 people.
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Rehana Bi has carefully preserved the picture of her with bandages around her eyes that appeared in an international news magazine after the disaster. The eyes of her son, Chand, then a year old, were also damaged.
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This couple spent almost all their money on medical treatment since being exposed to the gas. When doctors advised Leela Devi that an abdominal operation was essential for saving her life, they had to borrow money from their neighbours. They have been in debt ever since.
Union Carbide had reached a $470-million out-of-court settlement with the Indian government in February 1989. Local tribunals had been created by the federal Indian government to decide compensation affairs; 560,000 survivors' claims were accepted by the tribunals. The average payment to each survivor was just $580. The first payments were not even made until almost ten years after the disaster.
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Nanko, aged 76, was independent and able to provide comfortably for his family. After the gas disaster, he became a beggar. The tragedy left in its wake loss of job opportunities, mounting medical bills and lack of support structure from the state.
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He is known as the "Death Doctor". I must have performed more than 20,000 autopsies so far. No relative of a gas victim can get a compensation claim for a death without my certificate. It has been a nightmarish experience. Dr. Sathpathy, the forensic expert at the state government's Hamidia Hospital, the only one operating on the night of the disaster.
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Foetuses which were aborted by pregnant women escaping from the gas, or shortly after the gas leak, were preserved at the state government's Hamidia Hospital, to establish the cause of death.
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Rubeda Banu's three sons have stunted growth. Shakeel, who was a week old when the tragedy occurred, Raes Ahmed who was 18 months and Muzaffar who was born a year later, are all less than five feet tall. Rubeda's mother has severe problems related to breathing and mental depression.
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Pushpa, 70, lies in a ward in the Bhopal Memorial Charitable Hospital and Research Centre. She is our aunt. She was exposed to the gas. She has been sick ever since. But now her condition is much worse. In fact, this hospital has become almost like a second home for us.
To this day, a huge number of survivors of this gas disaster have never seen any compensation money from Union Carbide. Many survivors have taken up legal action in the US against the multinational company. Many cases are still pending.
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Mohammad Arif. With a sick heart and damaged lungs that provoke violent coughing fits that rack his fragile body, he spends his days in pain. Doctors say he has pulmonary fibrosis, a condition that can only be cured by replacing his lungs. That operation would cost extensive amounts of money, something that Mohammad Arif does not possess.
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A view of the abandoned pesticide plant. Union Carbide fled the scene in 1984 and for the last 18 years virtually nothing has been done to clean up the highly polluted site. In Canada or the US, would a foreign pesticide company ever be allowed to cause the deaths of 20,000 people in an accident and get away with it without at least accepting responsibility for cleaning the site?
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Union Carbide left hundreds of tonnes of toxic waste on the site. Until mid-2001, the factory grounds were inaccessible without special permission from the government. Now the perimeter walls are broken and local children play in the area, which remains dangerously contaminated.
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Contamination from the plant pollutes the soil and ground water of local communities. Faced with no alternative, hundreds of people still drink and wash with the contaminated ground water.
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Protestors draw attention to the contrast between efforts to find Osama bin Laden and those to extradite Warren Anderson, former chief executive of Union Carbide. Anderson is evading justice in the United States and wanted for crimes in Bhopal.
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I m sorry Nadia, I did ask u to load...I had no heart to see them...:( barely I did managed to only one...and then...