विश्व की सबसे बड़ी औधोगिक त्रासदी की आज २६वीं बरसी है. आज भी जब मौत के तांडव का वह भयावह दृश्य याद आता है तो दिल दहल जाता है : भोपाल गैस त्रासदी

विश्व की सबसे बड़ी औधोगिक त्रासदी की आज २६वीं बरसी है. आज भी जब मौत के तांडव का वह भयावह दृश्य याद आता है तो दिल दहल जाता है 

अब तक १५ हज़ार से भी अधिक लोगों को मौत के आगोश में सुला देने वाली विश्व की सबसे बड़ी औधोगिक त्रासदी की आज २६वीं बरसी है. आज भी जब मौत के तांडव का वह भयावह दृश्य याद आता है तो दिल दहल जाता है और ऑंखें नम हुए बिना नहीं रहती. आधी रात बाद हुई इस विभीषिका का पता हमें तब लगा जब आँखों में अचानक जलन और खांसी से सारे घरवालों का बुरा हाल होने लगा. पिताजी ने बाहर आकर देखा तो बाहर अफरा-तफरी मची थी. घर के सामने पहाड़ी से लोग गाडी-मोटर और पैदल इधर-उधर भाग रहे थे. लोग चिल्ला-चिल्लाकर कह रहे थे कि गैस रिस गई है. हम भी एक गाडी में जो पहले से ही ठूस-ठूस कर भरी थी, उसमें ही ठुस गए. भोपाल से दूर जाकर ही कुछ राहत मिली. सुबह ५ बजे वापस आये तो फिर से अफवाह फैली कि फिर से गैस रिस गई है और हमें फिर भागना पड़ा. आँखों में जलन और श्वास की तकलीफ का चलते जब हॉस्पिटल जाना हुआ तो रास्ते में सैकड़ों मवेशी इधर-उधर मरे पड़े दिखे. भ्रांतियों और आतंक से घोर सन्नाटा पसरा था. लोग ट्रकों से भर-भर कर इलाज के लिए आ रहे थे, कई लोग उल्टियाँ तो कई आँखों को मलते लम्बी लम्बी सांस लेकर सिसकियाँ भर रहे थे. कई बेहोश पड़े थे जिन्हें ग्लूकोस और इंजेक्शन दिया जा रहा था. अस्पताल के वार्डों के फर्श पर शवों के बीच इंजेक्शन के फूटे एम्म्युल और आँखों में लगाने की मलहम की खाली ट्यूबें बिखरी पड़ी थी. मरने वालों में सबसे ज्यादा बच्चे थे, जिन्हें देखकर हर किसी के आँखों से आंसूं रुके नहीं रुकते थे.

 

इस विभीषिका के कई सवाल उभर कर आये लेकिन समय के साथ-साथ ये सवाल भी काल के गर्त में समा गए हैं. मसलन क्यों और किस आधार पर इतनी घनी आबादी के बीच संयंत्र लगाने की अनुमति दी गई. पुख्ता सुरक्षा व्यवस्था के इंतजाम क्यों नहीं थे आदि बहुत से प्रश्नों के साथ यह भी अनुतरित प्रश्न आज भी हैं कि गैस त्रासदी की जांच के लिए बिठाए गए न्यायिक आयोग को गैस सयंत्र की स्थापना की अनुमति सम्बन्धी जांच का अधिकार क्यों नहीं सौंपा गया? सयंत्र के अध्यक्ष वारेन एंडरसन एवं कंपनी के ७ अन्य अधिकारियों के खिलाफ सबसे पहले आईपीसी की किन धाराओं में मुकदमें दर्ज हुए, उनमें से १२० व अन्य धाराएँ बाद में कैसे हट गई? चेयरमेन को ७ दिसम्बर को गिरफ्तार कर जमानत पर रिहा क्यों किया गया? कार्बाइड कारखाने के घातक रसायनों का अब तक निपटारा क्यों संभव नहीं हो सका है?

भोपाल की यह विभीषिका जहाँ विश्व की भीषण दुर्घटनाओं में एक है, जिसमें हजारों लोग मारे गए और आज भी कई हजार कष्ट और पीड़ा से संत्रस्त होकर उचित न्याय और सहायता की आस लगाये बैठे हैं, क्या यह खेदजनक और दुखप्रद नहीं कि सत्ता की गलियारों में बैठे अपनी सिर्फ थोथी शेखी बघारकर अपने प्राथमिक कर्तव्य से विमुख होकर वोट की राजनीति में ही लगे रहते हैं?

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The Madhya Pradesh government on Tuesday removed former Director General of Police (DGP) Swaraj Puri, who had played a key role in the release of the former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson, from the state-run Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA).

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, currently on a foreign tour, sent a directive to remove Puri, official sources said on Tuesday.

The demand to remove Puri from Grievances Redressal Authority (GRA) was raised at a press conference addressed by veteran BJP leader Sunderlal Patwa, who said that he would take up the issue with Chouhan.

The former DGP, as a member of the GRA in the NVDA, enjoyed the status of a Minister of State.

Puri, who was the then SP of Bhopal, along with the then Collector Moti Singh released Anderson soon after his arrest following the Bhopal gas disaster at the behest of their bosses.

Both came under severe criticism for ferrying Anderson in the Collector's official car on December 7, 1984, with Puri driving the car himself and Singh sitting beside him and Anderson on the back seat.

Bhopal gas tragedy: No intention to prosecute anyone, said Arjun Singh in '84

A crucial point of the controversy over the Bhopal Gas Tragedy verdict has been the exit route offered to Warren Anderson, who was the American CEO of Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) in 1984 when a gas leak from the company's plant choked Bhopal. Anderson's departure from Bhopal was not a stealthy one. He flew out on December 7, hours after landing in Bhopal, on the official plane of the then Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Arjun Singh.  He then stopped in Delhi before leaving the country. But the verdict delivered last week, which offered a nano-punishment to seven Carbide executives, all of them Indian, has led to a new public anger pivoted on why Anderson has never faced trial. aaj tak  has now got access to the footage of Arjun Singh when he visited the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, just four days after the disaster. Standing outside the factory, Singh clearly said there was no intention to prosecute or harass Warren Anderson. "There was no intention to prosecute anyone or harass anyone. Therefore he was granted bail and he agreed to be present in court if charges are made," he had said. Does this perhaps explain why Arjun Singh is still silent, despite the growing demand even from within his own party that he speak out on his role in letting Anderson get away?    Arjun Singh has so far neither commented on the verdict nor on the multiple accounts by bureaucrats and others that establish that it was his office that asked for Warren Anderson to be flown out of Bhopal on December 7, 1984. Anderson was charged by the CBI with culpable homicide not amounting to murder.  After leaving Bhopal on the Chief Minister's plane, he has never returned. In different press conferences, the Congress has also said that it will try to fix accountability. Without naming Arjun Singh, party general secretary Janaradhan Dwivedi had earlier said, "The party has always maintained that all questions that are raised in any such situation must be answered properly and responsibility should be fixed. The same norm applies to this case." Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who heads a BJP government, has also slammed Arjun Singh saying he has the missing links. "I will go to whatever extent possible to get maximum relief for the victims. Arjun Singh should explain the circumstances under which this happened. It is time he made things clear for everyone. He must speak out," he has said.

India had assured Anderson's safe passage: Former US diplomat

A former US diplomat, who was the deputy chief of mission of the US embassy in New Delhi at the time of Bhopal gas tragedy, has said the then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson came to India following the gas leak only after getting assurance of "safe passage" from the Indian government. Now a visiting professor of economics at Emory University in the US, Gordon Streeb was the charge d'affaires at the US embassy when poisonous methyl-isocyanate gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant on the night of December 2-3 in 1984, killing nearly 3,000 people instantly and thousands over the years. Speaking to news agency IANS, Streeb recalled that Union Carbide contacted the embassy indicating that its chairman, Anderson, wanted to fly to India to see for himself what had happened and to show "concern for the victims" at the "highest level of the company". "The issue was whether he would be guaranteed access to the site and eventual safe return to the US," Streeb said in an e-mail, adding, "This was a reasonable precaution since legal systems differ so widely around the world." With the ambassador, Harry G. Barnes, out of India, Streeb was liaising with the Ministry Of External Affairs on the sensitive issue. The Ministry "advised that it would be a very welcome gesture if Anderson could come to India and that the government of India could assure him that no steps would be taken against him during his visit". Anderson came to India and reached Bhopal with the plan to meet then Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Arjun Singh. Instead, he was arrested on December 7 by the state police. "I immediately contacted the Foreign Ministry and was assured the (that) government of India would honour its commitment to provide Anderson safe passage in and out of India," said Streeb in his communication to IANS. Based on the Indian government's assurance, Anderson was brought to New Delhi and "departed on the next commercial flight back to the United States". Streeb said that then Foreign Secretary, MK Rasgotra, had been his chief interlocutor during that period. "I am in no position to comment on the decision making process within the government of India, i.e., who made the decisions referred to above and how Anderson's release was arranged," said Streeb, who is also member of the India China America Institute's advisory board. When IANS made efforts to contact Rasgotra, his secretary first said he was not available. In a second attempt, Rasgotra himself came on the line to say gruffly, "I have nothing to say (on this)." Told that he was described as the interlocutor on the Anderson issue by Streeb, Rasgotra said "That is bloody nonsense" and disconnected. While Arjun Singh has still not spoken publicly about the incidents, Indian ministers have said that the decision to let Anderson leave Bhopal was strictly a law and order decision. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters in Kolkata on Sunday that Arjun Singh's December 8, 1984 statement on the reason for Anderson being sent out of Bhopal was due to the deteriorating law and order situation and because people's anger was "running high". "Therefore, it was thought necessary to send him (Anderson) out of Bhopal," said Mukherjee. A Bhopal court had January 1, 1992 issued a notice for Anderson's appearance before it. After Anderson failed to turn up, non-bailable arrest warrants were issued against him. In 2003, India sent an extradition request for Anderson to the US Justice Department, which rejected it in 2004. The last request for extradition by the Ministry of External Affairs was made in September 2008.

Bhopal gas disaster: 12-year-old attempts to 'summon' Anderson

A 12-year-old Indian-American activist tried to issue summons for Warren Anderson, former chief of Union Carbide over the deadliest 1984 gas disaster in Bhopal. "Today we are here to appeal to Warren Anderson and summon him to the Indian court where he has been charged with culpable homicide, which is the equivalent of manslaughter in America," Akash Viswanath Mehta said, standing outside a skyscraper on Park Avenue, which houses the law firm that represents Union Carbide. Mehta, along with his older brother Gautama, 15, were asked to leave the premises by the building owners who said it was private property owned by H J Kalikow. The media was also not allowed to film on the property. Akash who had the 1992 summons along with a criminal chargesheet in an envelope requested that the package be delivered to the legal offices of Kelly, Drye and Warren. The owners of the building responded that there was no one in the office and the activists should make an appointment or send the summons by post. "Do you know they represent the CEO of a corporation that is absconding from justice in Bhopal India?" said Adrianne Raff Corwin, an activist from the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB). "He is being charged with culpable homicide... they are protecting a man who is basically responsible for murdering thousands of people in India and he should be extradited from America," she added. "It is not necessary for me to be able to understand you," responded the building representatives who refused to identify himself. The protest was organised by ICJB and Kids for a Better Future based in New York. The two groups noted that their objective was to remind that Anderson was still absconding and needed to respond to the outstanding charges. When the summon bearers were told to leave, Akash read out a statement to a handful of building owners and cops. By the end of the demonstration the number of police officers had increased from one to six. "Twenty-five years ago Warren Anderson escaped arrest and his day in court. I would like today to appear to Warren Anderson's conscience, his guilt and his grief and ask him to stand beside me," Akash said. "If he is truly haunted by the disaster that happened on his watch, which destroyed an entire community I ask him to come forward and make a moral statement about what the right thing is for Dow and Union Carbide to do", Akash added. "According to American law the polluter must pay and so Dow the owner of Union Carbide must pay to clean up its mess" he said. On the same day, another demonstration was organised outside the Indian embassy in Washington. "Because the Indian Prime Minister has not taken adequate action to ensure that these parties show up in court, activists are taking it into their own hands to provide summons," the activists said. In India, seven managers of the subsidiary company Union Carbide Indian Limited (UCIL) were sentenced to two years in prison and fined Rs 2000. Its parent company Union Carbide maintained that it was not subject to the jurisdiction of the Bhopal court since none of its officials were involved in operation of the plant. "Union Carbide and its officials are not subject to the jurisdiction of Indian court since they did not have any involvement in the operation of the plant," the company said in a statement. Dow Chemicals, which bought Union Carbide in 1999, asserts that there is no outstanding liability since a 470-million-dollar out-of-court settlement was reached with the Indian Government in 1989. The US has made it clear that it will not extradite him to stand trial in India. "I don't expect this verdict to reopen any new inquiries or anything like that. On the contrary, we hope that this is going to help to bring closure," said Robert Blake US assistant secretary of state for South Asia, last week after the sentencing. The activists also called for the Obama administration to reverse its position that extraditing Anderson would have a chilling impact of investment in India. "If they're refusing to extradite an American CEO to India, then British Petroleum (BP) and the government of the UK can refuse to cooperate when that case comes up for trial," Robert Mooney, a ICJB supporter and anthropology professor at New York University. Mooney was referring to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which has been coined as one of the worst environmental disasters. "I'm sure the American public won't stand for that, why should Bhopal survivors get any less," he said. "That is one of the biggest tragedies, even though its the worst industrial disaster in human history because it's in the poorer country it is virtually unknown," said vahid. "No-one really knows about it. It appears in the news for a week or so when it happened and then people just forgot about it." "I have been teaching at New York University since 2002 and each year there is dwindling awareness among my new students because they've never heard of it because they were born after it happened" said Mooney. "But the disaster is still ongoing so they should know about it."

Bhopal: Surviving victims to petition Obama for help Seeking justice for the victims of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy of 1984, its survivors have started a signature campaign for a memorandum to be sent to US President Barack Obama against Union Carbide Corporation (UCC). "Your (Obama) tough stand against British Petroleum for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is worthy of emulation by other governments around the world and the same yardstick should be applied to the Bhopal Gas tragedy involving a US company," bhel gse pidit sangathan, an NGO working for the disaster victims, said. "Your order that judicial process be allowed, both in the US and India to take their course in fixing responsibility of Union Carbide Corporation and individuals of the US, responsible for the Bhopal carnage is crucial to restore the subverted system of justice," it said. In the memorandum, Obama has been asked to set in motion the process to make Dow Chemicals (now the owner of US-based UCC) take the responsibility for liabilities, that includes cleaning up the toxic mess that remained dumped in the now defunct Union Carbide factory. Following the pressure of US Reagan administration in 1984, Warren Anderson, the then CEO of UCC was sent back from India even though he was arrested after he was booked for toxic leak from the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) factory on December 2-3, 1984, it said. "We are going to sent the memorandum to Obama shortly," the NGOs convenor rajendra singh chouhan Vahid adv. Mobile 9827293624

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