hiya,
my email blogging is not working. No idea why. Tried twice this week but it is not even bouncing.
Anyway, getting on with my post this week and as many of you have already guessed, ya I am going to talk about the Bhopal Gas Tragedy. Though it so long since it happened, the court verdict has come so late there is no respite to the victims. I am not going to talk for the victims here. There are a lot of people out there talk for them right now.
My point of concern is this. Many ministers then were involved in getting the Union Carbide CEO out of the country. They flew him out of Bhopal in a state plane. ie. On exchequer's money. The reason that is coming out now is that , they feared that foreign investments will be affected if a CEO is arrested. The same ministers are holding very important posts even now. vow!
So for these ministers the foreign investments is even more important that life of the very people who voted for them? Vow! Also, Warren Anderson, the Union Carbide CEO at that time knew of possible safety issues in Bhopal. In fact, I read that the same issues were identified in a plant in the United States also. As you have already guessed, the issues were fixed in the USA plant but not at Bhopal. Why? Because i just bought the law makers. So if law catches me I will change the law! right?
That's exactly what has happened. They talk about stricter norms and all crap. But they are not able to even make the culprits accountable. How are they going to prevent some more unknowns from committing this crime again? And once in 5 years we elect them.
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