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.

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[riverfox.livejournal.com]

*sighs* Pisses me off, both events. These are the ones where, sadly, I think my radical left-wing ecological terrorists are right in launching attacks against those companies. Far as they can see, and I can see, justice is late or not at all.

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

Yeah. *sigh*