BHOPAL: Protesters in the central Indian city of Bhopal formed a human chain on Thursday to demand justice for people suffering cancer, blindness, respiratory, immune and neurological problems from the world's worst industrial disaster 36 years ago.
Dow Chemical, which now owns Union Carbide, has denied liability, saying it bought the company a decade after Union Carbide settled its liabilities to the Indian government in 1989 by paying US$470 million. "Stop giving us false promises ... have some shame," protesters shouted as they demanded financial help.Local rights group say victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy are more vulnerable to the coronavirus than other people.
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