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Marking the Bhopal Tragedy

NEW YORK -- 'Bhopal as a Victim of Toxic Capital' or 'Warnings You Need to Hear About Globalization': The 15th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy will be marked on Friday, December 3. The event will help revisit the Bhopal disaster, and inform about the renewed efforts to sue Union Carbide.

A slide show, a documentary, 'Bhopal: A License to Kill' and a panel discussion is offered, 1 to 4 pm at the Education Building, Room 306, West 4th Street (just east of University Place) New York University.

The panelists are Brian J Mooney, anthropologist and former attorney-at-law, Kelley, Drye and Warren; Rajan Sharma, attorney-at-law, Goodkind, Labaton, Rudoff and Sucharow; and Arvind Rajagopal, New York University.

Mooney will speak about his experiences as an attorney for Union Carbide in the Bhopal case, and on his subsequent research on the perceptions of the victims in Bhopal.

Sharma will speak about the lawsuit filed last fortnight in New York against Carbide, accusing the corporation of violating the human rights of the Bhopal victims.

Rajagopal will recall his experience as a volunteer with the International Medical Commission on Bhopal in 1996-97.

"Union Carbide's culpable neglect of its pesticide plant in Bhopal led to a chemical explosion that has killed more than 16,000 and wounded over 500,000 people," the organizers of the event assert.

"While Carbide's public relations machinery have presented the case as closed, the people of Bhopal continue to suffer, poorly treated, uncompensated, and impoverished, and victims of a human rights scandal."

For more information, contact Arvind Rajagopal at (212) 982.0043.

If you would like to post any information about forthcoming events or community happenings, please email the details to bettypais@aol.com

Information and photographs can also be mailed to Betty Pais at 87-52 108th Street, 2nd Floor, Richmond Hill, NY 11418-2229, USA.

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