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Just a fortnight before the 35th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster—one of the biggest industrial disasters in the world—Abdul Jabbar, 62, succumbed to health complications at a local private hospital.Jabbar was not 'just' a survivor of the disaster. He was the most prominent face of the three-and-a-half-decade long struggle of lakhs of survivors and affected next generations who continue to wait for proper compensation, rehabilitation, health care and punishment to the accused of the man-made disaster that wiped off thousands from the face of the earth on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984.

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