Bhopal the search for justice, a documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
December 3, 2004 marks the 20th anniversary of the world’s worst chemical industry disaster. Its victims are still waiting for answers.
On December 2, 1984, the Union Carbide pesticide plant (now owned by Dow Chemical) in Bhopal, India leaked poisonous methyl isocyanate gas killing fifteen thousand men, women and children. Hundreds of thousands more were permanently maimed. Today, children with genetic abnormalities bear witness to what was, and remains, the world’s worst chemical industry disaster.
Twenty years later, amid charges of corruption and greed, the victims and their families have been inadequately compensated and denied access to critical medical and environmental findings about the disaster. Journalist Raajkumar Keswani, whose prediction of the Union Carbide disaster proved prophetic, has documented the legacy and introduces us to leading scientists, doctors and activists in his search for justice.
Finally, in a post 9/11 world, concerned politicians & others are starting to listen as Bhopal becomes a rallying cry for issues of chemical industry security, industrial pollution and “chemical trespass” of the human body.
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