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June 15, 2010

Activists Demand Arrest of Exec Tied to Bhopal Disaster
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Activists gathered in New York on Monday to demand that 
Warren Anderson appear in an Indian criminal court to face charges
stemming from the 1984 Bhopal industrial gas disaster that left an
estimated 15,000 people deal. Anderson is the former head of Union
Carbide, now a subsidiary of Dow Chemical. Members of the International
Campaign for Justice in Bhopal and Kids for a Better Future attempted to
hand-deliver copies of an Indian arrest warrant and criminal charges
against Union Carbide and Anderson. The Indian government formally
requested for Anderson’s extradition in 2003, but the US refused in
2004. Twelve-year-old Akash Viswanath Mehta of the group Kids for a
Better Future spoke at Monday’s rally.

Akash Viswanath Mehta: "I would like today to appeal to Warren
Anderson’s conscience, his guilt and his grief, and ask him to stand
beside me. If he is truly haunted by the disaster that happened on his
watch, which destroyed an entire community, I ask him to come forward
and make a moral statement about what the right thing is for Dow and
Union Carbide to do."



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