They pointed to the Supreme Court’s initial characterisation of the 1989 settlement as “just, equitable and reasonable”, as well as the government of India’s own defence of it in 2006 on the basis that “each and every claimant has got compensation as per law and his entitlement”.“The 1984 gas leak in Bhopal was a terrible tragedy that continues to evoke strong emotions more than three decades later. Campaigners say that was never enoughWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? This is seen by campaigners as a direct violation of the treaty of mutual legal assistance between the US and India, and has ensured Dow Chemical has never appeared in the courts to answer the criminal charges.In a statement, the department of justice said they did not “publicly comment on communications with foreign governments on investigative matters, including confirming or denying the very existence of such communications.”The Indian government has also been accused of working against the victims by kowtowing to corporate interests. “We had a Dow spokesperson who told us that ‘$500 goes pretty far over there’. Later in 2006, the Indian government stated that a total of 558,125 people were injured including 38,478 people with temporary partial injuries and an estimate of 3900 severely and permanently disabled people. Campaigners say that was never enoughIndependent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. We are considered lesser human beings' New data collected over the past nine years by the Sambhavna Trust suggests that even after three decades, the mortality rate for gas-exposed victims is still 28% higher than average. But her husband spent two months in a hospital ward and, from chronic chest pain to loss of vision, she says the family suffered “many health issues” in the years since. This ramshackle neighbourhood, on the outskirts of the Indian city of The explosion killed over 3,000 people instantly, but the subsequent death toll has been far higher.The effects of the disaster will be felt on the health of generations to come, not least through the severe contamination of the area around the factory.Hundreds of thousands of people were exposed to toxic chemicals as a result of the disaster, leading to cases of cancer, stillbirths, miscarriages, lung and heart disease.A machine inside one of the buildings at the defunct Union Carbide pesticide factory.No cleanup operation of the chemical contamination around the former factory has ever been conducted.Survivors and relatives of victims of the Bhopal gas accident hold photos of the victims during a candlelight vigil. Nobody knew what was going on, what was happening to them.“People were falling unconscious. The Union Carbide factory explosion remains the world’s worst industrial accident – but as its dreadful legacy becomes increasingly apparent, victims are still waiting for justice It remains the world’s worst industrial disaster, which saw 40 tons of toxic methyl isocyanate gas released into the air, killing over 3,000 instantly and condemning hundreds of thousands to a future of prolonged pain, cancer, stillbirths, miscarriages, lung and heart disease and the drawn out deaths of everyone around them.“It would be better if there was another gas leak which could kill us all and put us all out of this misery,” said Omwati Yadav, 67, who can see the Union Carbide factory from the roof of her tiny one-room stone house, painted peppermint green with orange doors. More than 250 firefighters, backed by water-dropping aircraft, were struggling Wednesday to contain a large wildfire fanned by strong winds that has forced the evacuation of five settlements in southern GreeceA Black Lives Matter protester carries an American flag as teargas fills the air outside the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse in Portland, OregonA trader decorates a camel with Henna at a cattle market set up for the upcoming Muslim festival Eid al-Adha also called "Festival of the Sacrifice", in RawalpindiThe Milky Way galaxy is seen in the sky above the International Car Forest of the Last Church in Goldfield, Nevada. At some point during the ordeal she suffered a miscarriage.“Since that night, six members of my family have suffered long-term breathing problems and seven have become sick with cancer. Walking into the hut where where Yikas, 21, and Aman, 19, lie side-by-side on the floor on a pink woven mat, she breaks down.Both born severely disabled by cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy, the severity of the boys’ condition is on stark display. Rashida Bee, president of the Bhopal Gas Women's Workers group, told the AFP news agency that "justice will be done in Bhopal only if individuals and corporations responsible are punished in an exemplary manner". Courthouse in Portland, Oregon. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the trust, which was established entirely on the basis of donations given by thousands of Guardian readers who responded to a newspaper advert by the Sarangi set up the clinic after several incidents convinced him the government were not giving Bhopal victims the correct treatment or information in a bid to disguise the lasting scale of the tragedy. In the wake of the gas release, Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) and its then-chairman Warren Anderson worked diligently to provide aid to the victims and attempted to set up a process to resolve their claims. Muslim pilgrims converged today on Saudi Arabia's Mount Arafat for the climax of this year's hajj, the smallest in modern times and a sharp contrast to the massive crowds of previous yearsThe Mars 2020 Perseverance mission lifts off at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. On six separate occasions between 2014 and 2019, the US Department of Justice has simply not passed on the summons for Dow Chemical to appear in the Bhopal Court on criminal charges of sheltering a fugitive, their subsidiary company Union Carbide.

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