AIUSA Group 48

Category: India

  • End 25 years of injustice in Bhopal

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    joanne
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    Shortly before midnight on 2 December 1984, thousands of tonnes of deadly chemicals leaked from Union Carbide’s pesticide plant in Bhopal, central India. Around half a million people were exposed. Between 7,000 and 10,000 people died in the immediate aftermath and a further 15,000 over the next 20 years. On 2 December 2009, the people…