Bhopal, 3 December 1984.
When 40 tonnes of poisonous gas spread over the sleeping city.
“Mothers didn’t know their children had died, children didn’t know their mothers had died and men didn’t know their whole families had died.”The BBC reports here. Pictures documenting the tragedy here and here and here. Please note: they are not easy to look at.
22 years later. Rediff’s 2004 report here. The campaign for Bhopal here.
Bhopal survivor Sunil Kumar (20 July 1971 - 26 July 2006) lost his parents, two brothers and three sisters in that one night. On Sunil’s suicide 22 years later, here:
“We found you in your flat, dangling from the ceiling fan. You left a note saying that when you made the decision to end your life you were completely in your senses. You had bathed and dressed in clean clothes. You, who rarely wore t-shirts, had put one on especially for this final farewell. It said NO MORE BHOPALS.”
Picture: Burial of an unknown child, Bhopal, 1984 - Raghu Rai.
my hometown is bhopal..n yes our ppl of this city are 95% suffering from mental or physical problems …cause of this Gas Tragedy.
We’ve a hospital only for the victims for Gas tragedy..but the situation is wrost ..May God Bless them!
Comment by vijeta — December 29, 2006 @ 7:53 am