Bhopal: Justice appears to be a distant dream for the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy but that is not sufficient enough to deter them from registering their annual token protest against the perpetrators of the worst ever chemical disaster.
The protest has become a ritual for those who survived the worst ever chemical disaster in Bhopal during the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984.
They gather at the Yadgare Sehajani Park in Bhopal every year and raise slogans to bring to book those who were responsible for the tragedy.
Their worst fear is that in the present globalisation environment many such disasters are waiting to happen and the worst suffrers as usual would be the poor.
"Tonnes of chemical waste is still lying at the Union Carbide factory. Nothing has been done while the site of the 9/11 attack has been completely cleared," a local resident and a victim of the tragedy, Abdul Jabbar says.
After fighting a long legal battle the survivors have manged to get some compensation but Warren Anderson has still not been brought to book.
"Money is no compensation. The guilty have to be brought to book and we will fight it till the end," Shakuntala Devi another victim added.
Whatever may be the amount of compensation received by the victims of the tragedy, life for those who survived that fateful night has been paralysed for ever and the fact that compensation has come after long legal wranglings is all the more tragic.
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