Its been a long while since I wrote anything on my blog, but I must say that the 25th Anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy psuhed me to making my views public in the hope that some of us might read them.
Its been 25 years and hardly a sign of justice. Successive governments have failed to request the extradition of Mr. Warren Anderson, the then chief of Union Carbide at the time of the disaster, and he lives a luxurious life in the US. Greenpeace managed to trace his residence at New York in 2002 but despite an international warrant against him, the US thought little of extraditing him to face charges of culpable homicide in the world's worst industrial disaster.
But what hurts me the most is the callous attitude of Indians. Indian government fears that foreign investment would be hit if it requests for Warren Anderson. Not every CEO coming to India would do what Warren did and it should come as no surprise to any US industrialist that criminal negligence is punishable for they very well know what punishment they would get within US for a similar incident.
On the other hand, Indians still buy Eveready and Energizer products and nobody has called for a boycott of their products despite the fact that the same company was responsible for the Bhopal Disaster. The single biggest action that would bring Dow Chemicals to its knees is the total boycott of all Eveready and Energizer batteries by Indians.
Lets join hands and resolve never to buy Eveready and Energizer batteries again!
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