Saturday, December 04, 2004

Bhopal gas victims

Twenty years back, Methyl isocynaide one of the most poisonous gasses was released silently into the bursting city of Bhopal. Countless people are dead and many more are permanently affected. The saddest part is that most of these victims are poor and homeless. why is this so? the poor and homeless were sleeping under the blue sky and the dark dragon sunk in. Killed most of them in their sleep itself.
Atrocious, isn't it? so the company which was involved in this would be closed and all the victims would be compensated and the people involved would be behind bars wouldn't they? Ay may be in your country called Utopia. Not in India.
Even 20 years later nothing changed, very few were compensated. Such apathy? Welcome to India, that's your first lesson here. Our value for human life is very little. We believe in Adam Smith’s theory od Demand and supply. Humans are one resource we have in abundance and therefore thus apathy towards it.
What would have happened if this nightmare would have happened in any Western country? hard to guess isn't it? The company would have been sued and would have been tanked. The travesty would not have allowed to happen in the first place, there would be enough regulations on storage and processing such poisonous gasses.
Now Union Carbide which owned the Bhopal facility has been skirting the respectability. Green peace activities tricked BBC to do an interview, and the fake Union Carbide spokes person accepted the responsibility for the whole thing. Union Carbide had to issue a rejection of this acceptance. So now they reject that they caused this tragedy? in fact its a genocide.
Yes sir, good old genocide, not planned cooked dinner sort of thing but killing 3000 people is still a genocide.
Indians still didn't learn a lesson, its laying the reddest carpet to all the 2 bit western companies. All we need is a unending supply of grease to keep out palms oily for along time. No I am not against western companies what i am against is gross disrespect shown to human life by who ever is in power in India.
I just hope that we have smarted up and pulled our pants. No more Bhopal's no more mass graves!!

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