Press Statement CPI, Forward Bloc Extend Support to Bhopal Survivors’ Struggle NEW DELHI, 31 March, 2008 – Bhopal survivors sitting on dharna at Jantar Mantar since 28 March received a major shot-in-the arm after CPI National Secretary D. Raja and Forward Block Secretary Devarajan visited their sit-in and extended their support. CPI National Secretary D. [...]
30 people, including children and old women, were arrested today evening at India Gate during an awareness raising event on the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal (see photos of the time just as the police moved in below). Many of those arrested arrived yesterday after walking 800kms from Bhopal demanding justice for the Bhopal victims. [...]
Rama Lakshmi, Washington Post, March 29, 2008 Survivors of the 1984 gas leak at a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, are in New Delhi to seek redress from Dow Chemical, which bought Union Carbide. NEW DELHI, March 28 — Twenty-three years after a Union Carbide chemical plant in India spewed poisonous gas in what [...]
March 27th, 2008, Edinburgh Scotland-based Bhopal supporters gather outside the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh A delegation of Members of the Scottish Parliament, campaign groups and supporters met with the Indian Consul General in Scotland on Thursday in solidarity with the padyatris and in support of their demands. Twenty five people walked from the Scottish Parliament [...]
AFP, Mar 28, 2008 A Bhopal gas tragedy survivor sits under a banner during the protest NEW DELHI (AFP) — Fifty survivors and victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak arrived in New Delhi on Friday after a 37-day march and demanded to meet the premier to seek a clean-up of toxic waste at the [...]
28 MARCH, 2008. NEW DELHI – Marking two years since their last padayatra from Bhopal to Delhi, 50 people, including survivors of the 1984 gas tragedy, their children, people exposed to contaminated drinking water and their suupporters, today concluded their second 800 km march by walking from Nizamuddin park to Jantar Mantar. “We were forced [...]
The following article refers to a legal opinion given by Congress spokesperson, and legal counsel for Dow Chemical, Abhishek Manu Singhvi that was discovered through Right To Information requests filed from Bhopal. Frontline, Volume 25 – Issue 07, Mar. 29-Apr. 11, 2008 BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY Veil of deception H. RAJAN SHARMA Dow and, by implication, [...]
March 26th, 2008, London — UK member of parliament Des Turner filed Early Day Motion 1266 in the Houses of Parliament, London, in express support of the aims of the Bhopal padyatra and dharna at Jantar Mantar. Bhopal 23 Years On – Early Day Motion 1266, Houses of Parliament, London, UK Turner, Desmond That this [...]
19 March, 2008 Around 100 people gathered at the Gandhi Statue on Marina beach to hold a candle light vigil in support of the second padyatra of the Bhopal gas survivors. Around 6’o clock we started readying the place for the vigil. We had two banners in Tamil and English which had the story of [...]
