topic: worldly
Submitted by dash on Thu, 02/12/2004 - 06:14.
Got this through the email today, it's from a guy who works with my housemate, who needs to teach us more Carrom techniques at some point. It's twenty years ago today (tomorrow?) that the terrible Union Carbide accident happened in Bhopal, India. I was living in Zimbabwe at the time, so I didn't notice. Also only being 7 I had more important things to worry about, like riding bikes and playing. Anyway, I think it's important that we remember stuff like this and the shit that happens to innocent people due to incompetent companies.
"The ruins are a powerful symbol of an American dream that turned into an Indian nightmare"
"Mothers didn't know their children had died, children didn't know their mothers had died and men didn't know their whole families had died" - Ahmed Khan, Bhopal resident
"I am too lucky to survive the gas leak purely b'coz of wind direction. If wind direction was opposite, today I wouldn't have working with Ivor, Stu or anybody. People forgets or oblivious where this industrialisation leading this society to ( doom maybe!!!) Its shame that big corporations get away with this massive man-slaughter. 20,000 dead, still counting" - Rammohan Nandiraju, Bhopal gas leak survivor. Currently working in Bristol UK
