Bhopal gas tragedy: Wounds continue to fester, demands linger after 35 years
Source: The Week, Date: , 2019
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.