Comments on: Bhopal Gas leak disaster

By: Janelle

Janelle — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:40:13 +0000

Heya, just wanted to say I think you should put on a show in New Zealand sometime, it’s quite nice here. Peace

By: Margaret Mila

Margaret Mila — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:37:12 +0000

Nobody would deny the horror and devastation which occurred in Bhopal. And there’s no denying that Union Carbide failed to successfully enforce some safety standards. But the real culprit here was the incredibly corrupt system in India, for one example, the local council – whose job it was to ensure there were no residential dwellings within a certain distance of the plant – not only failed to do this, but failed repeatedly, their officers demanding bribes from the people who were buidling and living in these slums. These residents worked at the plant, and wanted to lived nearby. Union Carbide closed the plant on a number of occasions when housing began encroaching into the no-go zone, but the council kept letting the residents return and rebuild. It’s not just the big companies who are to blame, it’s corrupt systems too.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:21:10 +0000

The Yes Men pulled a brilliant stunt to raise awareness about this a few years ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiWlvBro9eI

By: Kevin Foy

Kevin Foy — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:07:51 +0000

I’m always surprised at how many people have still never heard of this terrible disaster. Not only as it was such a major catastrophe at the time, but that the suffering is still on going.

These photos by Magnum photographer Raghu Rai from 1984 were very moving.
http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP3=ViewBox&ALID=2TYRYDDG70XJ&IT=ThumbImage01_VForm&CT=Album

Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

And plenty more easily found on the web from 2009, 25 years later. Hope that’s okay to post these links here.

By: Andy M

Andy M — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:45:29 +0000

Interesting letter in the guardian yesterday, comparing the extradition of the guy with aspergers to the US with the fact that the US refuses to extradite the manager of union carbide to India

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:43:19 +0000

Wednesday the 3rd??????

By: crae

crae — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:13:35 +0000

Interesting. I found out about this a few years ago when I was looking at the some of the abusive behavior of Enron corp. in India. Awesome to see it’s getting the cleansing light of sanity shined upon it. Considering how effective the campaign to dish out justice to that abusive railway conductor was a few months ago, I’m going to watch this one closely. I was beginning to wonder when and what the next twitter based protest you promoted would be…

By: Collis Brayne

Collis Brayne — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:27:38 +0000

If anybody would like to show support for the people of Bhopal, there will be a group of people meeting in Traflagar Square, Central London, on Wednesday afternoon (2nd December).

The meeting time is 2.45pm and at 3pm a choir will sing. As the singing builds some of the people will take part in a ‘die-in’. They will lie down and cover themselves with a white sheet, representing a funeral shroud. The idea is to show the people watching the spectacle what it is like to have bodies all over the your own city.

Please come and join in…

Now, just to thank Derren for showing interest in this terrible story.

By: Emma Tart

Emma Tart — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:37:49 +0000

For some Americans who don’t know much about Chernobyl, it might make more of an impression to mention that the Bhopal disaster killed more people than the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the first 48 hours, and ten times that number since then.

By: Elizabeth Mapleston

Elizabeth Mapleston — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:51:13 +0000

Thank you ever so much Derren for bringing this to all our attention. X

I’m tweeting this and twibbon too. Will also add to my facebook page also.

Hope you are well and thanks once again.