Bhopal Gas Tragedy

Disasters happen when multinational corporations though having enormous resources tend to look the other side when most of the people are uneducated and their governments do not care for them and their safety and laws are usually bent if not broken by the corporations for their benefit. On the night at around 1 a.m. on Monday, December 3, 1984, when most of the people were at home sleeping, a deadly toxic methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas leaked out …

…were not for mass demonstrations by the victims last July, both of these proposals would, no doubt, would have become reality. Yet, Campaigners and volunteers continue to work hard from 21 years after the disaster, to help the gas victims secure medical treatment and compensation. References: www.bhopal.com www.hu.mtu.edu/hu_dept/tc@mtu/papers/bhopal.htm http://www.bhopal.org/whathappened.html http://www.corrosion-doctors.org/Pollution/bhopal.htm www.ndtv.com/