Bhopal

[fabrisse]

I remember buying Time Magazine when it happened. That sounds trivial, but I was living in Mannheim at the time and relying on Stars and Stripes and a weekly purchase of The Observer (British Sunday Paper for those who aren't familiar) to keep me abreast of world news. An event had to be huge for me to buy a weekly magazine to get more details.

The images were awful. I kept thinking it looked like the casts at Pompeii with real corpses. My mind kept trying distancing tactics because it was too horrible.

So why the FUCK has it taken *checks calendar* 26 years to get convictions?

Over 3000 people died immediately, some from being trampled to death. The area of the disaster encompassed 520,000 people and as many as 300,000 may have long terms effects.

No wonder people think B(oycott) P(etroleum) will never have to answer for the disaster in the Gulf.

Comments

[snopes-faith.livejournal.com]

The images were truly awful. One of the Sunday Papers here (I think it was The Times) did a big feature on Bhopal a few years ago about the ongoing struggle for convictions and the stories and photos were and are seriously distressing. They interviewed several families who are still suffering the after effects, one way or another. I have no idea how they get to spin these things out for so long except it seems depressingly par for the course.

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

It's truly awful that we can't get companies to face up to their responsibilities sooner.