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Keywords
Activists
Burning
Chief executive officers (CEO)
Day
Demonstrations
Disasters
Dow Chemicals
Effigies
Human likeness
KWCI (GPI)
Outdoors
Pollution
Props
Small group of people
Smoke
Toxics (campaign title)
Union Carbide
Bhopal Disaster Anniversary and Documentation
Bhopal survivors commemorate the 18th anniversary of the gas disaster by burning effigies of the Chief Minister of Madyha Pradesh (Digvijay Singh), Indian's Prime Minister (Vajpayee Bihari) and former CEO of Union Carbide (Warren Anderson) close by the gates of the former Union Carbide factory in Bhopal where 100's of tonnes of toxic waste are still abandoned. Survivors are still seeking justice from Dow Chemicals, the new owner of Union Carbide. 20,000 people to date have died as a result of the 1984 tragedy.
Unique identifier:
GP0XNQ
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
03/12/2002
Locations:
Asia
,
Bhopal
,
India
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Kadir Van Lohuizen
Ranking:
★★★★★★ (B)
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Bhopal Disaster Anniversary and Documentation
Bhopal, India, is the site of the world's worst industrial disaster, where a Union Carbide chemical plant released 40 tonnes of highly toxic methyl isocyanate on the night of 3rd December 1984. The disaster killed thousands and the polluted site of the abandoned factory still leaks poisons into the groundwater of local residents.
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