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Candle-light vigil
& torchlight rallies mark eve of 25th Anniversary of Bhopal Gas
Tragedy
Thursday, December 03, 2009 07:22:50 PM,
Pervez Bari |
Bhopal:
On the eve of Bhopal gas tragedy, the world’s worst disaster, a
series of torchlight rallies and candle light vigils were held after
darkness fell tonight as victims and activists jointly commemorated
a night of horror 25 years ago when lethal gas leaked from the
American Union Carbide pesticide plant killing and maiming several
thousands of people.
During the daytime
on Wednesday seminars and conferences were organized by NGOs working
for the welfare of the survivors to highlight their unending woes
for the last 25 years and to express solidarity with them in their
fight for justice. Jan Sangharsh Morcha in collaboration with Bhopal
Gas Peedit Mahila Udhyog Sangathan held a National Meet on
“Destructive Industrialization and Distorted Development” to
seriously examine the factors that make such a massacre possible,
and what lessons have been learnt (or not learnt) from it? How do we
stop more ‘Bhopals’?
What is the nature
of the industrialization and development paradigm that make such
violence possible, and are our governments not pushing us down a
path that lead to many, many more Bhopals?.
First immediately after sunset
Sambhavna Trust Clinic staff and their friends with their families
organized a silent candle-light vigil in New Market for an hour to
pay tributes to those who perished in the disaster and the survivors
who are suffering from a host of diseases.
Meanwhile, The Bhopal Group of
Information and Action, (BGIA), including the Bhopal Gas Peedit
Mahila Stationary Karmchari Sangh and Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila
Purush Sangharsh Morcha and other NGOs took out the torchlight rally
to the abandoned Union Carbide factory. After lighting torches, the
victims — mostly women widowed by the gas leak — marched from Bhopal
Talkies to the defunct Union Carbide factory about two kilometers
away followed by a commemoration ceremony and movie screening on the
disaster. The victims in the torchlight procession raised slogans to
express their anger towards the killer Union Carbide management and
its new owner Dow Chemicals. They demanded justice and a life of
dignity.
They said that it is the collusion
between the central and state governments with Union Carbide and its
owner Dow Chemicals that is responsible for the denial of justice in
the case of the world's worst corporate massacre. They also urged
Dow to clean up the site which contains thousands of tons of toxic
chemicals.
It may be recalled here that on the
fateful intervening night of December 2/3, 1984 nearly 40 tonnes of
MIC and other lethal gases spewed out of the Union Carbide
Corporation’s pesticide plant in Bhopal, exposing over 5,00,000
people to the toxic fumes. While 25,000-35,000 people have died
since then and hundreds of thousands of persons have been maimed for
life.
pervezbari@eth.net
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