Thoughts are magical, we can move back and fro within a moment; even we do not know what will happen tomorrow. Last week memories took me back to 1984. I was in Dubai at that time. However, I was living a tension free life over there; still missed India and news from India. Televisions over there always full of news from Gulf countries, about civil war in Lebanon, USA and its policy, Russia and Israel. Israel? Obviously, while talking, you always preferred to mention your foes more often than your acquaintances. However, hardly there was anything about India, always preferred to give a miss to the news. Then, India was a country that provided them with all skilled and unskilled workers; no one imagined that it was a crouching tiger and going to explode one day. Often I used to walked to a near by supermarket to buy a newspaper, the paper I used to buy was ‘Gulf News`. I cannot deny that it was a quality newspaper. Anyhow, exactly end of 1984 two important news that I missed out and came to know exactly a couple of day after, it actually happened. Both were shocking incident Indira Gandhi’s assassination was on 31st October and then Bhopal Gas Tragedy on 3rd December.
Then the anti-sikh-riots, after Indira Gandhi’s assassination, was a horrible thing can happened. It was man made and do not want to name the bigwigs who played an important role into that riot. No body can prove anything against these people. I am here not for above incident but the incident took place on 3rd December, 1984, Bhopal gas tragedy.
Night of December 2–3, 1984, there was a leak of a deadly gas like methyl isocyanate (MIC) along with other toxins from the plant of Union Carbide, resulting in the exposure of over 500000 to 800000 people and since than almost 15000 to 16000 peoples died. Others effected by the gas, genetically.
Four years later of the said incident, mere $ 470 million given as compensation out of originally claimed $3.3 billion. Finally, 1991 victims got a miserable amount of the compensation.
Main culprit Warren Anderson was arrested but later released on bail by the Madhya Pradesh police and he flew out of the country, I am not here for any investigation, how, when by whom but all I know the coward left behind a score of dead bodies and helpless people. Twenty-five years, six months and 15 days passed by and pains are still same for the victims and the surviving family members. Nothing and almost nothing happened to those on duty, always ignorant about the condition of the stored deadly gases in Union carbide, and finally got away with two years of jail and that too a bailable one. Warren got away without any thing. Most funniest thing was Union Carbides smooth take over by another USA company known as Dow Chemical. Government policies and administration's work culture in India, seems everything chalta hai with the white skin.
Then the anti-sikh-riots, after Indira Gandhi’s assassination, was a horrible thing can happened. It was man made and do not want to name the bigwigs who played an important role into that riot. No body can prove anything against these people. I am here not for above incident but the incident took place on 3rd December, 1984, Bhopal gas tragedy.
Night of December 2–3, 1984, there was a leak of a deadly gas like methyl isocyanate (MIC) along with other toxins from the plant of Union Carbide, resulting in the exposure of over 500000 to 800000 people and since than almost 15000 to 16000 peoples died. Others effected by the gas, genetically.
Four years later of the said incident, mere $ 470 million given as compensation out of originally claimed $3.3 billion. Finally, 1991 victims got a miserable amount of the compensation.
Main culprit Warren Anderson was arrested but later released on bail by the Madhya Pradesh police and he flew out of the country, I am not here for any investigation, how, when by whom but all I know the coward left behind a score of dead bodies and helpless people. Twenty-five years, six months and 15 days passed by and pains are still same for the victims and the surviving family members. Nothing and almost nothing happened to those on duty, always ignorant about the condition of the stored deadly gases in Union carbide, and finally got away with two years of jail and that too a bailable one. Warren got away without any thing. Most funniest thing was Union Carbides smooth take over by another USA company known as Dow Chemical. Government policies and administration's work culture in India, seems everything chalta hai with the white skin.
!!!Warren Anderson, twenty-five years on and still living, call it sleep in peace (S.I.P) over thousand graveyards.!!!
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