Bhopal: Have we learned the lessons? [Archive]

cyu

4th December 2009, 20:27

Bhopal residents are marking the 25th anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster. Could it happen again?

Capitalism is still around. Capitalists still own the politicians in supposedly "democratic" countries. And from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/opinion/03mehta.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

"Warren Anderson, the Union Carbide chief executive at the time of the gas leak, lives in luxurious exile in the Hamptons, even though there’s an international arrest warrant out for him for culpable homicide. The Indian government has yet to pursue an extradition request."

...so it's not a question of could it happen again - it's still happening - the real question is how successful capitalists are able to hide what they are doing and when there will be a leak large enough that they are not able to hide like the one they did here: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Minton

"The UK media has been suppressed from mention the report or its contents since a secret gag order was issued against the Guardian newspaper on September 11, 2009... An attempt by a member of parliament to subvert the gag order, by mentioning "Minton report"... in the House of Commons, lead to a major uproar on October 12 and 13, following an attempt by Trafigura to apply the gag order to parliamentary reporting... The UK press gag remains in effect."