http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2006/April/subcontinent_April419.xml§ion=subcontinent&col=NEW DELHI - Victims of the Bhopal industrial disaster went on an indefinite hunger strike in the Indian capital on Tuesday to demand a cleanup of toxic wastes left by the 1984 gas leak.
More than 3,500 people died inhaling the fumes from a pesticide plant owned by Union Carbide -- now a subsidiary of Dow Chemical Co. -- and at least 15,000 have died since from cancer and other diseases, according to official figures.
“If the government ignores our hunger strike then it will be clear it only wants to earn money from multinational companies and just wants us to die,” said Shehazadi Bee, one of three Bhopal victims taking part in the fast along with three campaigners in New Delhi.
They are demanding the Indian government force Dow Chemical Co. to clean up the disaster area in central India.
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