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Friday, August 22, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 73
Bhopal: Victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy have written to US President Barack Obama asking him to extradite former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson to India so that he could be tried here, CNN IBN reported.
"We have written a letter to US President Barack Obama appealing him to help us with this case," said Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sanghathan (Bhopal Gas Victims Women Forum) convener Abdul Jabbar, adding that Obama's statement that the Bhopal gas tragedy was India's "internal matter" was wrong.
Anderson, who currently lives in New York, is one of the main accused in the Bhopal gas tragedy case.
The former CEO was flown out of India by the then Madhya Pradesh government on December 7, 1984, four days after the gas leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal.
The accident, which has been called the worst industrial disaster in the world, killed some 20,000 people and injured another 5,00,000.
Twenty-six years after the disaster, a lower court on June 7 convicted and sentenced for only two years eight former top officials of the Indian subsidiary of Union Carbide Corporation, USA.
The verdict did not name Warren Anderson, while all those convicted got bail after the judgement.
Bhopal: Victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy have written to US President Barack Obama asking him to extradite former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson to India so that he could be tried here, CNN IBN reported. "We have written a letter to US President Barack Obama appealing him to help us with this...
Bhopal: Victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy have written to US President Barack Obama asking him to extradite former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson to India so that he could be tried here, CNN IBN reported.
"We have written a letter to US President Barack Obama appealing him to help us with this case," said Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sanghathan (Bhopal Gas Victims Women Forum) convener Abdul Jabbar, adding that Obama's statement that the Bhopal gas tragedy was India's "internal matter" was wrong.
Anderson, who currently lives in New York, is one of the main accused in the Bhopal gas tragedy case.
The former CEO was flown out of India by the then Madhya Pradesh government on December 7, 1984, four days after the gas leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal.
The accident, which has been called the worst industrial disaster in the world, killed some 20,000 people and injured another 5,00,000.
Twenty-six years after the disaster, a lower court on June 7 convicted and sentenced for only two years eight former top officials of the Indian subsidiary of Union Carbide Corporation, USA.
The verdict did not name Warren Anderson, while all those convicted got bail after the judgement.
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