NGO to seek Obama help against UCL

Seeking justice for the gas leak victims,survivors of the tragedy have started a campaign to get signatures on a memorandum to be sent to US President Barack Obama.

“Your (Obama’s) tough stand against British Petroleum for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is worthy of emulation by other governments around the world and the same yardstick should be applied to Bhopal Gas tragedy involving a US company,” the memorandum,scripted by Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan,an NGO working for victims of the disaster,reads. “Your order that judicial processes be allowed,both in US and India,to take their course in fixing responsibility of Union Carbide Corporation and individuals of the US responsible for the Bhopal carnage is crucial to restore the subverted system of justice.”

The memorandum also asks Obama to “set in motion the process to make Dow Chemicals (the current owner of Union Carbide) to take responsibility for liabilities,that includes cleaning up the toxic mess that remains dumped in the now defunct Union Carbide factory”.

Convenor of the Sangathan Abdul Jabbar said they would send the memorandum to Obama “shortly”.