It has been 25 years of denial, deceit, and injustice. The people who were injured when 40 tonnes of toxic waste, methyl isocyanate, leaked out from the US owned Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India has still not been compensated. Union Carbide was found to be faulted for the lack of safety at the factory which caused the disaster, and up to date the company refuses to take responsibility for their actions. I and many with me think that these actions are distasteful.

During the Human Rights fair at Älvsjömässan in Stockholm I met with Bhopal activists today. They told me what they have seen with their own eyes: people in Bhopal are still today suffering from the Corporation’s deeds: many are crippled, blind and in constant pain. Children are still born with skin diseases, limbs missing, and severe brain damages. Union Carbide, the company responsible for the Bhopal factory, left the premises after the disaster and did not clean up any toxic waste, but abandoned the factory.

In 2001 the company was taken over by Dow Chemical Company , and hence they are responsible for compensating the people whom they sacrificed for the cause of cheap labour and cheap but hazardous production. Trials, justice, compensation, rehabilitation and toxic waste management is what the Bhopal activist are fighting for. Read more about the activist struggle at The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal and on Students For Bhopal websites. And please Boycott Dow Chemical company until justice is made! Everyone has consumer power.

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