02/22/2008, 00.00
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Bhopal survivors march on New Dehli

A hundred people, victims of one of the world’s worst industrial disasters, travel 700 kilometres on foot to the capital. They are asking for complete compensation and regeneration of the environment.

New Delhi (AsiaNews) – One hundred survivors of the Bhopal tragedy, one of the world’s worst industrial disasters, are marching 700 kilometres towards New Delhi in an attempt to obtain full compensation for damages accrued.

In Bhopal, in 1984, a massive leak of cyanide gas from a Union Carbide factory killed at least 3,500 people.

24 years later, the local population is still suffering from serious respiratory problems and babies born years after the dramatic episode are show health problems.

The march, which began Wednesday, is the second one to be undertaken by the victims in the last two years.  In the previous one, held in 2006, participants in the protest camper out for week s in the capital before receiving compensation promises from the then-prime Minister  Manmohan Singh,as well as guarantees of concrete intervention to renew the local environment.  Two years on, their demands are the same.

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