In US, Bhopal activists find new voice - Times of India

WASHINGTON: An Indian-American lad of 12 symbolically attempts to serve summons to Warren Anderson, the so-called Butcher of Bhopal, in New York. An American student who has already spent five years of her school life campaigning for justice for the victims of Bhopal, joins a protest demonstration before the Indian Embassy in Washington DC. Activists from University of Maryland, some of whom weren't even born when the world's worst industrial disaster took place, shout themselves hoarse for thousands of suffering victims half a world away.

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While the Bhopal issue is being debated vigorously in India following a widely-criticized court verdict, activists in America have found new voice because of a combination of developments: a growing chorus in the US for greater corporate accountability; the British Petroleum oil spill that has brought environment cause to the front burner; and a belief that, somehow, President Obama and his administration may be inclined to revisit the great tragedy that befell the people of Bhopal. On a steamy Monday in the US capital, a motley group of activists demonstrated around a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in front of the Indian Embassy. Drawing comparison to the huge liabilities being slapped on BP in the US, they demanded the Indian government pursue the prospect of forcing Dow Chemicals, which bought Union Carbide subsequent to the December 1984 disaster, to accept liability. They also sought ''appropriate sentencing'' for the Indian accused, and the extradition of Warren Anderson, who was the Union Carbide CEO when the disaster took place.

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