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'I remember making three-tiered graves. There was no option but to pile up one body on top of another. In those three-four days we must have buried more than 4,000 persons' says Mohammad Aziz as he looks at these skeletons that have come out of the graves.
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On the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal industrial disaster, Greenpeace activists display images from Bhopal and ask the general public for signatures demanding the chemical industry Dow to pay its debt with the citizens of Bhopal. The 1984 chemical explosion at Union Carbide in Bhopal, India killed and maimed thousands. Dow bought Union Carbide in 2001, but will not accept any responsibility for the clean up of the contaminated site.
On the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal industrial disaster, activists in Plaza Mayor, Madrid displayed images from Bhopal and asked the general public for signatures, demanding that the chemical company Dow pay its debt to the citizens of Bhopal.
On the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal industrial disaster, Greenpeace activists construct a memorial sculpture near the Dow Chemical factory in Rheinmuenster. The 1984 chemical explosion at Union Carbide in Bhopal, India killed and maimed thousands. Dow bought Union Carbide in 2001, but will not accept any responsibility for the clean up of the contaminated site. The sculpture is a copy of the "Bhopal Memorial" - mother with two children. The banner reads:"Bhopal dies - Dow keeps silence!"
Activists constructed a memorial sculpture near the Dow Chemical factory in Rheinmuenster, a copy of the "Bhopal Memorial" in India - a mother with two children. The banner reads: "Bhopal dies - Dow keeps silence!"
On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal industrial disaster, activists hold a candlelight vigil. The 1984 chemical explosion at Union Carbide in Bhopal killed and maimed thousands. Dow bought Union Carbide in 2001, but will not accept any responsibility for the clean up of the contaminated site.
On the eve of the anniversary, a candlelight vigil was held at the Bhopal Memorial in India. On the anniversary itself thousands of people took to the streets in Bhopal demanding action from both Dow Chemical and the Indian Government. They also burnt effigies of former Union Carbide Chairman Warren Anderson, who has been charged for culpable homicide in India but remains safely in the US.
On the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal industrial disaster, Greenpeace activists deliver an exact replica of the memorial statue that stands outside the Union Carbide site in Bhopal -'mother with two children' to the DOW European Headquarters near Zurich.
Activists deliver an exact replica of the memorial statue that stands outside the Union Carbide site in Bhopal -'mother with two children' to the DOW European Headquarters near Zurich.
About the Bhopal disaster
| Warren Anderson, Union Carbide chairman at the time, knowingly put a city of half a million innocent people into a potentially deadly situation for personal profit. This action is a crime against humanity and the environment. More |
The survivors have never received adequate compensation for their debilitating illnesses and even 20 years after the disaster, the polluted site of the abandoned factory, bleeds poisons daily into the groundwater of local residents. Bhopal is an ongoing disaster and Union Carbide's new owners, Dow Chemicals, should pay to clean up the toxic mess.
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| Outside, we saw all the neighbors running. The sky over us was turning red. I hadn't been able to put on any slippers. I can still remember the blue frilly frock that I was wearing that morning. More |
Read the stories of Ruby in India and Paul in Michigan, both suffering from Dow Chemical's environmental pollution.
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Find out more about our ongoing campaign to get Dow to clean up its own mess - including how to contact Dow
