Suffering continues in Bhopal 30 years after disaster
Reuters
2014-12-02
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Thirty years after the world's worst industrial accident and human rights activists say the lives of the people in Bhopal India remain in danger.
On December 2, 1984, cyanide from the U.S. owned Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal India began leaking into the air.
A thick poisonous cloud enveloped the city of mostly poor inhabitants- effectively choking to death thousands of people.
Today, the plant is rotting and overgrown with vegetation. Rusty toxic canisters stand covered in dust. Thousands of tonnes of hazardous waste remain buried underground, which activists say is seeping into the drinking water of more than 50,000 people.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) SECRETARY GENERAL OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, SALIL SHETTY, SAYING:
"The toxic waste needs to be cleaned up, both in the site and also outside. It is affecting the soil and the water, that is why it is creating health issues for people. Not just toxic waste health issues of gynaecological reproductive heal
On December 2, 1984, cyanide from the U.S. owned Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal India began leaking into the air.
A thick poisonous cloud enveloped the city of mostly poor inhabitants- effectively choking to death thousands of people.
Today, the plant is rotting and overgrown with vegetation. Rusty toxic canisters stand covered in dust. Thousands of tonnes of hazardous waste remain buried underground, which activists say is seeping into the drinking water of more than 50,000 people.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) SECRETARY GENERAL OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, SALIL SHETTY, SAYING:
"The toxic waste needs to be cleaned up, both in the site and also outside. It is affecting the soil and the water, that is why it is creating health issues for people. Not just toxic waste health issues of gynaecological reproductive heal
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