Bhopal Victims Protest, Draw Contrast with US Treatment of BP

T.L. Caswell on how Union Carbide’s negligence in the Bhopal chemical leak near Agra in the 1980s was punished late and lightly, whereas BP was forced by the US to establish a $20 billion payout fund right away.

Aljazeera English reports on the ongoing Bhopal protests by victim families, and their new resentments about how their disaster was dealt with compared to the more pro-active and tough stance taken toward BP.