Another feather in the indian judiciary's cap...Jai Ho...

Bhopal Gas Tragedy which occurred on the night of December 2-3, 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India is the world's worst industrial catastrophe. At that time, UCIL was the Indian subsidiary of the U.S. company Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), which is now a subsidiary of Dow Chemical Company.

Around midnight on December 2–3, 1984, there was a leak of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and other toxins from the plant, resulting in the exposure of over 500,000 people. Estimates vary on the death toll. The official immediate death toll was 2,259 and the government of Madhya Pradesh has confirmed a total of 3,787 deaths related to the gas release. Other government agencies estimate 15,000 deaths. Others estimate that 8,000 died within the first weeks and that another 8,000 have since died from gas-related diseases.Some 25 years after the gas leak, 390 tonnes of toxic chemicals abandoned at the UCIL plant continue to leak and pollute the groundwater in the region and affect thousands of Bhopal residents who depend on it,

Over two decades since the tragedy, certain civil and criminal cases remain pending in the United States District Court, Manhattan and the District Court of Bhopal, India, against Union Carbide with an Indian arrest warrant also pending against Warren Anderson, CEO of Union Carbide at the time of the disaster.
Greenpeace asserts that as the Union Carbide CEO, Anderson knew about a 1982 safety audit of the Bhopal plant, which identified 30 major hazards and that they were not fixed in Bhopal but were fixed at the company's identical plant in the US. In June 2010, seven ex-employees, including the former chairman of UCIL, were convicted in Bhopal of causing death by negligence and sentenced to two years imprisonment and a fine of about $2,000 each, the maximum punishment allowed by law. An eighth former employee was also convicted but had died before judgment was passed.

Even worse than the 40 tonnes of poisonous gas that descended onto Bhopal and the 25,000 deaths it caused, is the judgement that was passed earlier today, 26 years hence. Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohan P. Tiwari at Bhopal convicted 8 individuals and sentenced them to imprisonment of 2 years and released them on bail later the same afternoon.Union Carbide’s Warren Anderson, who is absconding on the files of the court, continues residing in the Hamptons in New York. Meanwhile, a non-bailable warrant issued in 1989 remains pending against Anderson, who fled India earlier in 1984 after posting bail of Rs. 25,000.

A former prime ministerial aide P C Alexander reportedly stated that Gandhi and then Madhya Pradesh chief minister Arjun Singh were directly in touch with each other over the escape of Anderson from the country barely days after the world's biggest industrial disaster in Bhopal Dec 2-3, 1984.

The Government of India as well as the CBI did everything they could to extradite Anderson from the US. Chief minister Arjun Singh had apparently not consulted the caretaker Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi before ordering the arrest of Anderson on December 7. It is alleged that After the arrest, Rajiv Gandhi's powerful aide and cousin, Arun Nehru, telephoned Arjun Singh and told him that US President Ronald Regan had called up the Indian PM and 'requested' him to release Anderson immediately. Now, Rajiv Gandhi was an Indian Airlines pilot, accustomed to taking only orders from air traffic control. The job of prime minister was thrust upon him because of his mother's assassination just one month before the gas disaster. He couldn't have resisted the top man in the White House.

In Simple words,The allegation is that the American government wanted to rescue Anderson and they had spoken to Rajiv Gandhi who instructed Arjun Singh to kindly do the needful and hence Anderson was sent to usa safely in a separate flight.So the Indian government was not bothered about punishing the accused Anderson who was responsible for the Bhopal tragedy,instead they gave him a safe passage to reach the usa.

The central government should clarify this so that the people can know exactly what happened and how Anderson went back to the usa.I suspect the congress government is trying to cover up the entire issue in order to save Rajiv Gandhi’s name.Now after 26 years our great prime minister manmohan singh is offering a relief package for the affected people. Lets leave the number of people who died in that tragic night,can we count how many people would have died in the past 25 years. I wonder who is going to receive the relief from the prime minister...

An Open Letter to Salman Khan,Vivek Oberoi and others who went to srilanka to attend the Indian Film Festival

Hi
Hope you guys are educated,hope you know whats happening in srilanka since 2009(even if you dont know about the past few decades).what happened in srilanka is called genocide(pls check the meaning of the word genocide in a dictionary if you didnt know),if you were not aware of it until last month thats ok.But you should have bothered to know what happened and whats happening in srilanka by the time people started protesting against indian film stars going to srilanka.Respectable gentlemen like Amitabhji,Shahrukh Khan,Aamir Khan from your own hindi film industry and the entire south indian film industry(tamil,telugu,malayalam & kannada) boycotted the festival.For you guys it may have been just another film festival in srilanka,but for the tamil people its much much more,its a matter of life and death.I dont know why you guys went there,is it just for fun or for money?if it was for money,we(the tamils) could have paid you guys more money to boycott the festival.The festival itself was proposed to be held in korea and all of a sudden it was shifted to srilanka jus because the indian government wanted to help srilanka which was trying to build its image as a peaceful nation with a lot of scope for tourism.The international community is accusing srilanka and rajapakse as war criminals but the indian government wants to save them because indian government was part of the war(on srilanka's side).All i want to ask you guys is just one question.Imagine hindi speaking people in the place of tamils in srilanka,if hindi speaking people were killed in the name of war against terror,if the genocide was against hindi speaking people,i want to know if you guys would have gone to srilanka?if you say you would have gone to srilanka,then im sorry for wasting a few minutes in writing this letter...If you say you would not have gone to srilanka,then may i ask you,is hindi speaking people's life more precious than tamils' life?tamils are humans too...think about it guys...after reading this letter you guys still have the freedom of being yourself...
Cheers with tears...

Wake Up Guys

We have been sleeping for a long long time,since independence,its time for us to wake up...

Better late than never...The north indians,the successive central governments and the congress party have been against the tamilian interests till date.The state government here,run by our own dravidian leaders are inefficient in addressing our needs and grievances.Last year when the srilankan goverment was killing innocent tamil civilians in the name of war against terror,all we could do was hold human chain rallies,protests and hunger strikes,above all these we had the option of sending telegrams to our prime minister.we,as common men couldnt do anything more.

It was our mistake expecting the central goverment and the congress party to bring a cease fire, because it was the indian government which helped the srilankan army in every possible aspect.But the politicians of Tamil nadu(Our own dravidian leaders) could have made a difference if they were really bothered about the lives of innocent civilians in srilanka.It was no wonder our leaders were more bothered about the parliamentary election at that time.The international community also betrayed us.srilanka made fun of all the international norms and the uno.(we all know uno is fit for nothing).srilankan army used cluster bombs(which is banned by the international community).They bombarded even hospitals and schools.the international media was denied access which confirms srilanka was indulged in war crime.I started to write about the srilankan tamils but that is not the only issue im going to keep writing...

for more reasons for this wake up call pls keep following guys...