1984: Poison gas leaks from a Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. It spreads throughout the city, killing thousands of people outright and thousands more subsequently in a disaster often described as the worst industrial accident in history.
Warren Anderson, Union Carbide's CEO, went before Congress in December 1984, pledging his company's renewed commitment to safety, a promise that rang hollow in India (and probably to Congress as well).
Anderson was charged with manslaughter by Indian prosecutors but managed to evade an international arrest warrant and disappeared. Investigators from Greenpeace, which has kept up an active interest in the case, found Anderson in 2002, alive and well and living comfortably in the Hamptons (according to wiki he now lives in Bridgehampton, Long Island, New York.) The United States has shown no inclination to hand him over to Indian justice, and most of the serious charges against him have been dropped.
click here and read about all the things going on at the plant in India,that killed thousands, that he apparently didn't care about and will never pay for. Ain't it nice to be rich!
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