Friday, December 4, 2009

The Union Carbide Disaster 25 Years Later

The Revolting Cocks wrote songs about it, playing a sample of the Union Carbide rep saying only 38 people had died when:
"It was a human rights tragedy on December 2, 1984, and it remains so today. Shortly after midnight on that date, 25 year ago, thousands of tons of lethal chemicals leaked from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. About half a million people were exposed, roughly 10,000 of whom died in the immediate aftermath. Another 15,000 died in the following two decades."
Via Boingboing.net
(Click the pic for an interesting video and to help)

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