Let me start with a reference to one of the worst industrial disasters on recorded world history, it happened in India at midnight of 3rd December, 1984, at Bhopal.
In simple words a faulty tank containing a poisonous gas leaked from a factory and killed many. Official records of government say 3, 787 confirmed instant death. It can't be trusted, related reports say more than 10000 died with in 72 hours. The toll did not stop there, now it has been said it has taken 25,000 more with gas related diseases. The industrial gas methyl isocyanate leaked from the pesticide plant of Union Carbide exposed more than 500,000 people of that urban area.
Now the people are still struggling as toxic chemicals abandoned at the Union Carbide plant continue to pollute the ground water. It is reported that the factory site has not been cleaned up. More than 100,000 people continue to suffer from health problems. The governments or the company did not provide rehabilitation - both medical care and measures to address the socio-economic effects of the leak.
Many of those affected are still waiting for adequate compensation. The more interesting story is that the full facts of the leak and its impact have never been properly investigated. The culprits have ever been held to account for what happened there and the cases are still pending in the courts of India as well as in US.
What we can assume today, after these 25 years, the people of Bhopal will never be able to get their just rights because of Shameless Rajiv Gandhi and Congress Party. Present Indian governments and the Indian society can only offer them the promises, more promises and no accountability, ever accumulating poison and no clean water / air, and to pass this legacy of slow death to the new and incoming generations.
What we are going to call this "The Human Right Tragedy of the Century" or "the Mockery of the Human Rights."
