It is sad that it takes great tragedies for the world to realize short comings in certain industries. It takes a plane crash with a high death toll for safety regulations that would normally be seen as no brainers to be put into place. It takes accidents like Bhopal for the world to truly comprehen the dangers of living near a chemical plant.
It is even worse when such great tragedies are forgotten and justice is not served in accordance with what humanity feels as the right thing to do. For almost twenty-five years the people of Bhopal India have had to face the daily effects of that one day December 3, 1984 without the satisfaction of knowing that justice has been served in their honor.
It is truly a horrific truth of modern day life that profit often comes before the safety of the population and in the case of these people this thought trend led to the horrific deaths of tens of thousands and the suffering of hundreds of thousands more. Can we as human beings really continue with our lives knowing that such tragedies continue? Can we truly leave such horrors in the darkness?
I had previously heard of the Bhopal tragedy but I had not truly comprehended the vast complexities of the case until today when I came across a documentary on the disaster on YouTube. Now I feel that it is my duty to make as many people as possible aware of the horrors of that day and the horrors that still continue. December 3, 2009 will mark 25 years since the accident at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, the accident which wasn't really an accident. It was in fact an occurrance of human greed and negligence, an example of justice denied, an instance of human rights ignored. How much longer can we allow this to go unheeded? Not too much longer I hope, for the sake of the people of Bhopal.
http://www.bhopal.net/
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