Union Carbide is responsible for cleaning up the contamination and compensating the thousands whose lives have been ruined in Bhupal. In buying Union Carbide's assets, Dow also acquired its liabilities. Dow set aside $2.3bn to settle Union Carbide's US asbestos liabilities. But it refused to accept Union Carbide's Indian liabilities with the approval of Man Mohan Singh. Dow paid $10m to settle out-of-court with an American child damaged by Dursban, a pesticide so dangerous that it has been banned for domestic use in the US. But Dow employees were found to have bribed Indian Ministry of Agriculture officials to license Dursban as safe for home use in India.Dow has offered to invest $1bn in India if freed from its Bhopal liabilities. Earlier this year, 50 Bhopali survivors, many old and sick, walked 500 miles to Delhi to ask the prime minister for safe drinking water and to make Dow clean the factory. For two months Manmohan Singh left them camped on a sweltering pavement without a reply. When Bhopali women brought their damaged children to his house and chained themselves to his railings, he had them arrested. The policewomen who led them away wept.
When India's prime minister finally gave a reply, it was all prevarication, no substance. The Bhopalis then declared that they would launch an indefinite hunger strike until their demand for justice was met.
On the eve of the fast, police beat up women and children as young as six years old who had gone to protest outside t
RE:The Real Man Mohan Singh
by Dipak Bose on Jul 02, 2008 04:47 PM Permalink
Earlier this year, 50 Bhopali survivors, many old and sick, walked 500 miles to Delhi to ask the prime minister for safe drinking water and to make Dow clean the factory. For two months Manmohan Singh left them camped on a sweltering pavement without a reply. When Bhopali women brought their damaged children to his house and chained themselves to his railings, he had them arrested. The policewomen who led them away wept.
When India's prime minister finally gave a reply, it was all prevarication, no substance. The Bhopalis then declared that they would launch an indefinite hunger strike until their demand for justice was met.
On the eve of the fast, police beat up women and children as young as six years old who had gone to protest outside the prime minister's office.
RE:RE:The Real Man Mohan Singh
by Dipak Bose on Jul 02, 2008 04:49 PM Permalink
By all means Man Mohan Singh is an agent of US Corporations, now he is going to sign this 123 Deal so that American nuclear companies can make a lot of money. The same Man Mohan Singh had approved ENRON.
