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segunda-feira, 7 de junho de 2010

Indian court sentences 8 to 2 years in jail for 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy

All eight accused in  the 1984 Bhopal gas leak tragedy, which killed thousands of people and  maimed hundreds of thousands more, were held guilty by a local court  here in the central Indian city Bhopal Monday.
A lone girl is refreshing under the late monsoon rain in the impoverished Oriya Basti Colony in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the former Union Carbide industrial complex, Aug. 25, 2009. When the heavy monsoon rain falls every year, the rain seeps through the buried waste of Union Carbide pollute Bhopal's underground reservoirs. Over 30.000 people are here at risk by the ongoing underground water contamination. (Photo: China Daily/CHIPP Organizing Committee)

BHOPAL, India, June 7 (Xinhua) -- An Indian court here sentenced eight top officials of the U.S. Union Carbide corporation to two years for the 1984 gas tragedy in the central Indian city here which killed more than 20,000 people



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