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India’s Bhopal fuel leak victims protest on anniversary

STORY: On its thirty eighth anniversary, survivors of India’s Bhopal fuel leak – one of many world’s deadliest industrial disasters – took to the streets on Saturday (December 3) to protest the federal government’s lack of compensation, remedy and employment alternatives.Bhopal fuel tragedy sufferer: “We demand that Bhopal be brought to justice, the victims should get the right compensation, there should be correct measures for treatment and employment, and the environment should improve. The government says it has spent millions (of rupees) but the reality on the ground is still the same. In reality, no one has a proper source of income or got the right treatment, and there is no compensation.”Nearly four decades ago, toxic cyanide gas leaked from a pesticide factory owned by U.S.-based multinational Union Carbide Corporation and was carried by wind into surrounding slums in Bhopal.Protestors in Bhopal burned an effigy with a poster of the Chairman of Dow Chemical, the current parent company of Union Carbide and a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Meanwhile, 800 victims travelled to New Delhi to demand government support and just compensation from Union Carbide.Karuna Nandi, India’s Supreme Court Advocate, was at the protest.Karuna Nandi: “At least 800 folks from Bhopal have gathered right here at the moment. They are unwell, they don’t have employment and neither have they got the flexibility to work. The ones who do needed to go away their work apart to come back right here at the moment. They had humble technique of transportation and they don’t have any correct lodging. They have come for a number of hours and will probably be returning to Bhopal later. These individuals are right here at the moment to ship the message to the federal government to face by their facet and rectify their information (of victims).”Many folks nonetheless endure from most cancers, blindness, respiratory issues and immune and neurological disasters with little help, they are saying.The authorities recorded 5,295 deaths. Unofficial figures declare the quantity to be as excessive as 16,000. Activists estimate 25,00 deaths from sicknesses because the leak.