Bhopal

Three months before I was born, in the year 1984, three thousand people died coughing their lungs out in Bhopal when forty two tonnes of methyl isocaynate reacted with water to produce a cloud of fatally noxious gas that floated over the walls of the Carbide Union Factory and into the neighbourhood. I will turn 25 early next year, the tragedy turned 25 this month.

Quick Facts:

1. Where: Bhopal, India.
2. When: December 3, 1984
3. Lives Lost: 3000 in the first few hours, 15,000 in the next few years.
4. Cause of Deaths: Gas poisoning.
5. Name of Factory: Union Carbide Factory
6. Present Owner: DOW Chemicals (Bought Union Carbide Factory over in 2001)

For some photographs click here. Read the Wikipedia Article here.

Sources: Wikipedia, The Boston Globe.

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Look! Your enemy,
Cut, slash, rape, kill.
Loot and burn, burn again,
Smell the fat and the flesh,
Scrape it off the walls,
bury it with the bones,
and ask for justice.

Act before they do,
kill before they do,
Let your demons loose,
snatch their women,
ah! this flesh,
ah! this rage,
slit, cut, split!
and then vote.