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Back to index of Nerve 20 - Summer 2012
Bhopal
Survivors Tour
The world's worst industrial incident took place in 1984 at Union Carbide's pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. Up to 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a gas leak from the plant, some 15,000 have died since, and hundreds of thousands remain affected by the legacy of the poison. The area around the plant remains polluted by a cocktail of highly toxic chemicals.
Warren Anderson, American CEO of Union Carbide at the time of the leak, and Union Carbide itself, since taken over by Dow Chemical Company, remain absconders from the Indian court. Bhopal survivors are touring to the UK and Ireland this autumn. They are protesting Dow's Olympics sponsorship, and the London leg of the trip will coincide with the Paralympics. The tour is also being seen as the start of a build up to 2014, the 30th anniversary of the disaster, when there will be events worldwide to mark the devastation wrought by the gas leak, and to further the struggle for justice for its victims.
Two survivors of the disaster, along with an interpreter, are visiting the North West for three days, 20th-24th September. They will be in Liverpool on the 23rd. Liverpool Trades Union Council have pledged their support and are helping organise an event for this visit.
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