Dear Comrade Karat: On behalf of four organizations that have been fighting for the rights to justice and a life of dignity of the people poisoned by Union Carbide, we much welcome your initiative in supporting the 26 years old struggle of the survivors of Bhopal. We regret that except what has appeared in the [...]

Mr Jairam Ramesh, Minister for Environment and Forests, visited the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai on 28 June, 2010 to deliver an address. Students had planned to hold a silent protest outside the auditorium, but the Director dissuaded them, and offered a meeting with the Minister. Between 30 and 40 students attended the [...]

In their statement released today, seven Bhopal survivors’ organisations have condemened the Government’s hastily flung together plan to calm public outrage by appearing to offer additional compensation to the Bhopal survivors. In fact less than ten percent of people known to be exposed to Union Carbide’s toxic gases will receive any of this extra largesse. [...]

They must be gone because things that appal the rest of us, you seem not to see. You are blind to the agonies of 100,000 people who are still sick in Bhopal 25 years after Union Carbide’s gases leaked there. Blind to report after report recording the presence of pesticides and heavy metals in soil [...]

The people most responsible for the disaster in Bhopal were not in the courtroom yesterday when eight Indian employees of Union Carbide India Limited were found guilty of criminal negligence. Union Carbide Corporation (US), its ex-Chairman Warren Anderson, and Union Carbide Eastern, have been refusing since 1992 to obey the summons of the court and answer charges of culpable homicide. The evidence against them remains unheard, as the prosecution sought to focus on the small fry, the Indian managers, who despite their own failings and shortcomings were ultimately carrying out orders that originated in the United States.

According to Eveready Industries, the successor to Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL), there was never any danger of a judgement against the company, consequently no need to provide financially for that eventuality. Whence comes this overweening confidence? “Trial proceedings before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhopal, on the modified charges framed under the directions of the [...]

The people most responsible for the disaster in Bhopal will not be in the courtroom when the verdict against the Indian defendants is announced. Union Carbide Corporation and its ex-Chairman Warren Anderson, and Union Carbide Eastern, have refused since 1992 to obey the summons of the court and answer charges of culpable homicide. The evidence [...]