Editorials

Imperialist lackeys rescue CEOs of MNCS

What happened at Bhopal on 3rd December 1984 after midnight was the worst ever industrial disaster in the world. Within hours about 20,000 of India’s citizens met a painful death. About 4-5 lakhs continued to suffer serious aftermath of the massive leak of poisonous gas from the Union Carbide plant. While many died later, lakhs are still suffering. It did not happen all on a sudden. The CEOs of the plant Warren Anderson and the top bureaucrats knew that the plant was not safe. Gas had leaked a number of times and workers had died. Still no remedial measures were taken and worst happened. It was a culpable massacre by an MNC, a criminal act against a large no of people of this country.
Whatever the media is reporting and has become presently a topic of accusation by political foes were known all over the country during the last days of December 26 years atgo itself. Under US pressure then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, MP Chief Minister Ajun Si ngh and the top bureaucrats at Delhi and Bhopal had conspired to rescue a mass murderer from the wrath of the people and managed a safe journey for him to the US. Later they diluted the case and allowed it to be tried in India so that the compensation was cut down to a pittance. The judiciary from Supreme Court to local Bhopal magistrate with the connivance of the prosecution ensured that the case is charged similar to a traffic accident and all the accused are bailed out as soon as they were punished this month. How loyal are the lackeys of imperialism ruling this country! Even the monopoly media in US and UK could not stomach this most shameful act. So even they called out foul and called for stringent action against Warren Anderson, Union Carbide and its present owner, the Dow Chemicals. But nothing is going to happen to the CEOs and MNCs under the rule of these imperialist lackeys.
While the Congress leadership is the prime accused in this criminal act against the nation and the people, no other party in the ruling system who has shared power at Delhi or Bhopal during these 26 years can absolve itself from the responsibility for this cover up act as they never even tried to shout against the foul deeds to save the criminal MNC. After colluding all these years against the hundreds of thousands of victims to save the MNC, whatever they accuse each other are nothing but cheap political tricks. In spite of the Bhopal case verdict the speed with which the Monmohan Singh government is going ahead to get the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill passed fixing a mere RS. 500 crores as compensation for a nuclear plant disaster when US administration has already taken a hundred times more from the petroleum company, BP, for spilling oil in Gulf of Mexico due to damage in its oil well shows that in spite of the Rs. hundreds of thousands of crores spent at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl after the nuclear plant disasters to check radiation effects and for rehabilitation what is proposed as compensation to be spent by the US companies in case of a nuclear disaster is nothing more than peanuts. These are acts of high treason and inhumanity. Whatever happens to the country and the people these traitors are not ready to change their course. So the country and people can be saved only by throwing them out to be replaced by a people’s democratic rule. So Bhopal gives a great revolutionary lesson.