Monday, June 7, 2010

Bhopal bosses handed down 2 year prison term

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7809111/Bhopal-disaster-bosses-handed-down-two-years-in-prison.html

Remember this? The worst industrial accident in history.
And all the responsible got was
2 years for twenty thousand lives
What kind of justice was that?
The same kind you can expect to doled out to BP
Scant


An Indian court has sentenced seven former employees of Union Carbide to two years imprisonment for negligence that led to the 1984 Bhopal gas leak, which killed more than 20,000


The Union Carbide plant accidentally released toxic gases into the air shortly after midnight on December 3, 1984. Poisonous fumes drifted over nearby slums, killing around 3,500 people within three days, according to the official estimate. The final toll may never be known but campaigners claim the numbers of deaths has climbed above 20,000.

An inquiry found that 40 tons of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas leaked into the atmosphere after a flood of water into a containment tank triggered a chemical reaction.

Survivors and relatives of the gas leak and activists chanted slogans outside the courthouse calling the verdict an instance of 'too little, too late'.