Let's hang our heads in shame- The Bhopal gas leak tragedy

15,000 deaths, 500,000 victims suffering from chronic illness, 26 years later the Indian judiciary passed its judgement on the Bhopal gas leak tragedy. The verdict is anguishing and shocking to say the least.

Whom should we blame for this horrifying verdict and for the injustice to all those affected… Union Carbide (The company’s plant leaked the poisonous gases)- Who did not put enough safety measures in place to reduce costs and increase profits, whose regards for their profits were much higher than the value of a poor Indian, whose compensation of $470m shells out Rs 100,00 to each victim?

Or should we blame Anderson the then President of Union Carbide in India who took no moral responsibility whatsoever and absconded as quickly as possible to the US, who the CBI still can’t locate, although a bunch of ‘Green Peace’ protestors located him in the suburbs of New York and handed him a warrant?

Or should we blame the CBI for a job done that will go down in history as the worst piece of investigation and cover-up and for bowing down to the pressures of the Indian Govt and the multinational?

Or should we blame the Indian Govt. for bowing down to the pressures of the US Govt. and the charm of the multi-nationals and giving Anderson an easy escape passage from India, and for selling the lives of its poor people and pretending such an event never happened?

Or should we blame the media that they seem more interested in whether Deepika and Ranbir are still together, having completely ignored the Bhopal tragedy as it is not a metropolitan city and the lives lost are not of high-profile people with no news-saleability?

Or of all should we blame ourselves for pretending such a tragedy never happened, and never raising a question, never demanding an answer, never creating a noise, never caring for the lives lost?

Lets all hang our heads in shame, for again India has sold the lives of its poor people for cheap and we too are responsible for this.