MOCKERY OF A TRAGEDY

What if I said that directly or indirectly YOU were responsible for the picture on your left? How would you feel? If you were involved directly, would the guilt allow you to live? If indirectly, would you take stern and immediate action to pacify her soul?

Well, if you are an Indian politician you are exempted from the above questions because your conscience is DEAD.

More than 15,000 people die overnight and 5.7 lakh are maimed for life in Bhopal in 1984. 26 years later the culprits are roaming free and the victims families are still awaiting justice. Hats off to the common man of India who has once again defined 'PATIENCE.'

Sadly, news today has become a Pizza, it has to be 'Hot n Fresh.' Who remembers or cares about what happened 26 years ago. Talk about 26/11 that will help in increasing TRP's. Channels are filled with debates and discussions on David Headley and Amir Ajmal Kasab leave aside Afzal Guru? Our "blood boils" when we see that Kasab is still alive.

The media has talked to death about him, everybody from a rickshaw puller to a Diamond jeweler knows him. Everybody wants to see this man hanged because media has created such a buzz around him. Why? Because he was one of those who killed 166 people in Mumbai. But nobody knew/remembered Warren Anderson prior to 7th June who killed more than 15,000 Indians?

The people involved in this case and the government should be ashamed of themselves. How can these people lead a normal life? These people are cold blooded murderers.
Had gas killed some MP's and Ministers, Warren Anderson and all his associates would have met their creators by now.

Unlike the victims, the disaster died a natural death. As it was the poor common man of India who was dead it was not a big deal. Honestly, the common man of this country was born to suffer. And belonging to the same category, it definitely angers as well as scares me.

To make matters worse, governments irresponsible behaviour is startling and exasperating. Don't these people have a family? Aren't they effected by others pain and sufferings? Are they even human?

My request to all the "leaders" of our nation is that you please continue with you scams worth thousands of crores and keep on filling your coffers. Continue with your corruption and bribery and save it because when death comes calling just bribe god and save yourself.

We do not expect you to stop. We have given up and are now used to it. You continue fooling the nation and its people with false promises. Use the the tax payers hard earned money to build your mansions, homes, malls, brothels whatever. BUT PLEASE STOP MURDERING US.

You have no right to play with our lives and ridicule our emotions. Thousands of affected people gathered outside the court to hear the verdict were denied entry. On top of it, the sentence was a farce. Two years imprisonment? That to only seven Indians were convicted and the kingpin was free to roam the streets of New York.

The government was and is hand in glove with these culprits, all of whom are high profile people. Laying hands on them will open a Pandora's box which may bring down the government. The CBI (oh! I am scared) time and again proves that it is a mere puppet in the hands of the government. Everybody is corrupt and working for his/her selfish motive.

Instead of insulting the affected, just spray some more methyl isocyanate on them and every citizen of the country so that you can rule in peace, loot it, rob it, rape it, assault it and then just to show the world that you are a responsible government- order a CBI inquiry into it.
Do whatever you want to. Just spare us.

Environment minister Jairam Ramesh on a TV channel “very casually” said that there is 325 tonnes of toxic waste is still lying at the site awaiting disposal. Why? Is it a priced possession for the government. Do they plan to display it in a museum? 26 years have gone and they could not clean up the mess?

The minister further says, “We will be building a National Green Tribunal (NGT) in Bhopal because we want to show that we 'care'” Mr. Minister are you in your senses? Or has the rebuking by the PM on the China fiasco got the better of you?

After 26 long years you please provide the affected families with justice and compensation. Build your NBT in your backyard and invite the Chinese to set up shops there and strengthen your business ties with them to your heart's content . No need to be “paranoid” you see.

Further he added that everybody wanted the NBT in Delhi but HE decided that it will be built in Bhopal . “We want to give a small but powerful signal to everybody.”
Thank you so much sir, you are GODSEND. After 26 years you are giving a signal maybe 100 years down the line we will get justice, after all its the gesture that counts. At least you are giving a signal.

And now for our beloved, humble, decent, intelligent, efficient PM. Have the guts to extradite Anderson and hang the murderer along with all the other people who were party to the disaster.

On the night of 2nd December 1984, Warren Anderson and his posse not only murdered thousands of Indians, he exposed the dead conscience of our politicians and 'leaders'.

And while I am writing this blog, an inner voice tells me that nothing is going to happen. There will be inquiries and investigations galore but nothing will come out of it. But I hope I am proved wrong, ABSOLUTELY WRONG!

P.S. Here are some facts which reveal the accidents that occured over a time span of eight years. Were these warnings not enough for the officials to take stern action? But they did not as huge amounts of money was involved. In short, FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) was and is more important for our 'leaders' than the lives of their own people. LET THE PEOPLE DIE, WE WANT FDI.

A series of prior warnings and MIC-related accidents:

•In 1976, the two trade unions reacted because of pollution within the plant.

•In 1981, a worker was splashed with phosgene. In panic he ripped off his mask, thus inhaling a large amount of phosgene gas; he died 72 hours later.

•In January 1982, there was a phosgene leak, when 24 workers were exposed and had to be admitted to hospital. None of the workers had been ordered to wear protective masks.

•In February 1982, an MIC leak affected 18 workers.

•In August 1982, a chemical engineer came into contact with liquid MIC, resulting in burns over 30 percent of his body.

•In October 1982, there was a leak of MIC, methylcarbaryl chloride, chloroform and hydrochloric acid. In attempting to stop the leak, the MIC supervisor suffered intensive chemical burns and two other workers were severely exposed to the gases.

•During 1983 and 1984, leaks of the following substances regularly took place in the MIC plant: MIC, chlorine, monomethylamine, phosgene, and carbon tetrachloride, sometimes in combination.

•Reports issued months before the incident by scientists within the Union Carbide corporation warned of the possibility of an accident almost identical to that which occurred in Bhopal. The reports were ignored and never reached senior staff.

•Union Carbide was warned by American experts who visited the plant after 1981 of the potential of a "runaway reaction" in the MIC storage tank; local Indian authorities warned the company of problems on several occasions from 1979 onwards. Again, these warnings were not heeded.