Tuesday, August 04, 2009
A judge in India last Friday ordered the arrest of Warren Anderson, former head of Union Carbide Corp., whose chemical plant in Bhopal released deadly gas killing at least 10,000 people in 1984. Another 50,000 were permanently disabled. Anderson was charged by an Indian court in 1986 with manslaughter, but fled the country before he could be arrested.
Judge Prakash Mohan Tiwari’s order included a demand that his government pressure the United States to extradite Anderson, who has divided his time between homes in Florida, Connecticut and the Hamptons on Long Island. Anderson, 89, and reportedly in poor health, could not be reached for comment after news of the arrest order surfaced, but his wife told the Associated Press that her husband has been haunted by what happened in Bhopal. “When you get to be 87 or 85 years old you just don’t remember anything. You try to put bad things out of your mind,” she said.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
India Orders Arrest of American in Bhopal Gas Leak (by Nirmala George, CommonDreams.org)
Wife: American Wanted in Bhopal Gas Leak 'Haunted for Many Years,' Living in NY's Hamptons (by Frank Eltman, Associated Press)
Victims of the “World’s Worst Industrial Disaster” Continue to Wait For Justice (by Dolores Bernal, News Junkie Post)
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