Saturday, August 19, 2006

No more Bhopals

This is a sad story of Sunil Kumar Verma, 34 a survivor of the 1984 Union Carbide Gas Leak in Bhopal, India. He committed suicide on July 26th wearing a t-shirt which read "No more Bhopals". Before he died he had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia - a mental illness which affected many gas survivors

In 1989 Sunil toured the world to garner support against the settlement agreed between the Indian government and Union Carbide. Sunil though died without realizing his dreams of seeing anyone being brought to justice over the world's worst industrial accident.

For more on this story click here.

Related: BBC's one night in Bhopal

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