Bhopal: Continuing legacy of a disaster

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The gas leak in Bhopal in 1984 killed thousands of people. To this day, survivors and children are still affected.
One of the world's worst industrial disasters took place in Bhopal, India, almost four decades ago. Surekha Lakkewar can still remember the evening of December 2, 1984: "Our eyes suddenly started to hurt, as if someone had rubbed chilies into them, and we could hardly breathe." Tonnes of toxic gases had escaped from the Indian pesticide factory Union Carbide. Thousands of people died, hundreds of thousands were injured. Families cannot forget the Bhopal gas leak of 1984 and struggle with the aftermath up until today. DW's Akanksha Saxena visits the remnants of the company and speaks to affected families.
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@greggjabol149 8 ай бұрын

After watching Netflix “The Railwaymen; The untold story of Bhopal 1984” I couldn’t imagine the suffering of those victims in one of the world’s worst industrial disasters. The effect of the chemical still haunts the people within the area. Hopefully they would recover soon and heal their traumas.

@curlieeloks3032 7 ай бұрын

Same ! Netflix brought me here

@bobhill3941 6 ай бұрын

@@curlieeloks3032Me too, and I agree with the first comment.

@rubymahajan4235 5 ай бұрын

Same here

@rubymahajan4235 5 ай бұрын

Watched on Netflix

@NatashaR1212 7 ай бұрын

How did Warren Anderson sleep at night. So funny life is. He got to live till 92 years and died in a nursing home in Florida. It's unbelievable. There is no karma. No repercussions for someone who was responsible for this.

@avinashbhujan1376 5 ай бұрын

There is karma, either in this life or the next lives, for sure.

@nobody-gg9fj 3 ай бұрын

Bhai is Janam ka pta nhi agle ka kya bole @@avinashbhujan1376

@rockwithyou2006 2 ай бұрын

you are right, there is no Karma. Lets not make things up. Lets learn to accept things as they are.

@rockwithyou2006 2 ай бұрын

@@avinashbhujan1376 come on man

@rockwithyou2006 2 ай бұрын

And our Govt is equally responsible for allowing them to set up a plant in the middle of the city. Where have you heard something like that happen ? Which western country has a chemical plant right in the middle of a city ? Kitna bribe liya hoga is plant ko setup karne ke liye ? The govt. got greedy and gave licenses to these people to setup plant in "convenient" places. And the workers in the factory, simply ignored all the pressure warnings, it took quite sometime to go from a pressure of 2 PSI to 40 PSI and they simply did nothing and even after suspecting a leak, took a tea break. Many journalists warned people several times. Published articles which fell on deaf ears. Why didn't a single politician come forward and take action ? So its the greed of Union Carbide, the govt., the greedy politicians and the casual attitude of people.

@magesalmanac6424 8 ай бұрын

What a sad event. Shout out to the heroes who tried to help families escape the disaster.

@stanleykubrick8786 8 ай бұрын

It's more than an event 6424. It's a pattern, like Love Canal; like the toxic chemicals flooding our entire planet. All in the name of progress and in our interpretation of GDP.

@kyatishetty4105 7 ай бұрын

@@stanleykubrick8786 this was fully avoidable tho. It was the fault of the gas company and our government for setting them free with corruption. Its always the foreign companies that do this tho, always to the third world countries. Just really really horrible when they knew that this was what the gas would do but never said ANYTHING to the public

@positivemindset4004 8 ай бұрын

Mothers have the love, the endurance to take care of their children.

@samre3006 8 ай бұрын

I am in tears. These people have it impossibly difficult. May they find strength and prevail. Before scaling any chemical operations, there must be thorough risk assessment and mitigations in place. Human life and natural resources are precious.

@Pbav8tor 8 ай бұрын

Not to multinational corporations. Not at all. They figure the bargain basement settlements into the cost of doing business.

@Ana_826 8 ай бұрын

The strength and the courage of these people cannot be explained in words. May God give them more power❤

@navyaaneja-qg9zo 8 ай бұрын

i have been researching a lot on this , it's aftermaths, how the leak was caused etc. it really was a very terrible and horrifying accident. may god bless all the heroes who gave in their best efforts to save people. i really wish i was capable enough to help those people. 🙏

@KUSUMADATHAN 6 ай бұрын

It happened when the water got accidently mixed up into MIC storage tank, due to pressure of it, the tanks got broken up and apparently gas leaked.

@ST-jl2tb 8 ай бұрын

Unfortunately it's still continuing Today. In the outskirts of Delhi towards UP, particularly in muradnagar and modinagar which is an industrial area with many big small factories, brick kilns etc is exposed to highly toxic environmental pollutants. In a discussion with locals, I was informed that almost all the factories with rare exceptions have borewells to push toxic effluents in the ground so they won't have to dispose of it in open sight. This is scary especially when people are aware of it and are protesting against such activities but whole groups are being shut by officials for mere bribes, compromising the lives of millions. It won't be wrong to say, that it's a disaster in making.

@rahuldeshpande4938 7 ай бұрын

This is horrible. If the toxins are pushed underground, it will have the worst impact as it will pollute underground water not only locally but far distances as well. Can you please start a channel or something to raise awareness about this? Or write to PMO?

@MartyMcDonnald 8 ай бұрын

India has a SERIOUS infrastructure problem! They have such a depth in ancient history and and a beautiful culture. I'd like to see a clean and organized India!!!

@jikkkjvghj 8 ай бұрын

That will never happen man. I know it coz i know our people.

@ankitmagar35 8 ай бұрын

@@jikkkjvghj true. Pade likhe GAWAR, hai yahan.

@jikkkjvghj 8 ай бұрын

@@ankitmagar35 jaise Zia ul Haque ne power ke liye logo ko religion ka injection lagaya tha waise hi injection current Government ne India mein laga Diya ha.humara haal bhi unke jaisa hoga .abhi to ai ka kehar ayega.pata nahin kya hga

@Dstar-km9fi1hs2j 8 ай бұрын

@@jikkkjvghjAccording to me people are more responsible for than government they don't pressurise the government for better infrastructure and becomes satisfied with useless things and also do not consider cleanliness as their role.

@aliskiron4778 8 ай бұрын

@@ankitmagar35Accident has happened from time to time. We did learn from it! It was in 1984 at the time of Congress! That too under iron lady shri Indira Gandhi was in power!

@defiant1716 8 ай бұрын

Shame on all men who abandon their children! Yours truly, fellow man.

@rahuldeshpande4938 7 ай бұрын

This Documentary did not cover some political facts - 1. Mr. Anderson who was responsible authority during this gas leak, was allowed to leave the country. Several reports have suggested that the government of PM Rajiv Gandhi was pressured by the US to let Anderson go. 2. Senior Congress leader Arjun Singh, who was then the chief minister of MP, wrote in his autobiography "on the instructions of the then Union home minister P.V. Narasimha Rao". 3. Anderson was haunted by the protestors until his death, so wherever he went, he faced the protestors. 4. There were may flaws, right from setting up the company plant. It was located in such directions, that the leak came directly towards Bhopal due to the wind directions causing a lot of casualties.

@abrahamlupis9354 7 ай бұрын

Warren Anderson wasn't arrested or canceled

@laughingoutloud5742 8 ай бұрын

I was 16 when this happened and heard about it on the news. I'm still trying to find a way to make Dow accountable for this ongoing horror, and others like DuPont. It disgusts me that corporations are the true power in this world.

@vincentbrk 8 ай бұрын

Union carbide has done similar leaks in 1985 in West Virginia. CEO was allowed to leave instead of facing trial. Hope they can evacuate the area, plant more trees and ensure new babies do not get impacted. Bhopal as such is in top 5 cleanest cities of India and has clean resources and roads.

@ChrisScottMedia 7 ай бұрын

Netflix's The Railwaymen was a perfect depiction of the real happenings on the tragic night in central India. An improvement on the 2014 movie Bhopal: A prayer for Rain.

@PB-mp4rt 8 ай бұрын

Such a terribly sad impact on these poor people! What a tribute these dedicated and caring women are to these victims of this tragedy. I salute these dedicated caregivers who have so much love and empathy in caring for their helpless loved ones.

@juliesheard2122 7 ай бұрын

Any chemical that destroys human DNA shouldn't be produced, let alone used as a pesticide. Humanity has gone insane.😢

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 8 ай бұрын

Another wonderful documentary shared by an excellent ( DW) documentary channel about environmental polluted ( soil, water, and air) its lethal, disability effectiveness on whole lives around leftovers Carbine union ( Bhopal factory 🏭..in India 🇮🇳...besides severe domesticated poverty...what a horrible situation 😢 .

@DWDocumentary 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and for the feedback!

@rangoman1815 8 ай бұрын

Greta Thunderbird's writer is Indian but look at India and China... Greta is afraid to confront India and China

@RoyalRajput108 8 ай бұрын

Wuhan virus bot spotted

@msxcytb 8 ай бұрын

Whenever someone says that Chernobyl or Fukushima are “dangerous “- show just this one real example of the danger

@userrrrrxx135 8 ай бұрын

What does that mean?

@msxcytb 8 ай бұрын

@@userrrrrxx135 people are scarred to death about one industry which is the safest way of making reliable power, while real dangerous accidents happen every day(small scale) with chemical materials (like extreme case of Bhopal), but smaller scale everyday.

@apoemadaywithkk4660 8 ай бұрын

The worse part is that the perpetrators went unpunished.😢😢😢😢😢 May God better their lives multi multifold times.

@rooftopmunda 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for this documentary. 😔👍🏻

@minininjatorpee3314 8 ай бұрын

Modernism has a price to pay , and the indian population is paying the hard price , and the high society is enjoying life . The who are suffering is the only who can understand the pain , they are paying the price for the stupidity of some people. May u find peace. Rest in peace.

@aarushtherobloxian5710 8 ай бұрын

Our politicians need to do something about this!Thanks for this amazing documentary.

@dustsky 8 ай бұрын

They've been paid to look the other way, and this doesn't happen only in India. Lax environmental regulations and a culture of bribery are a wet dream for companies like this one.

@M3ganwillslay 8 ай бұрын

India would actually perform better if it didn't have a government

@rangoman1815 8 ай бұрын

The current BJP government is more corporate minded and serves as a lapdog of Ambani and Adani who in turn helps to win elections and retain dictatorship control in India adding more pain and suffering to the already suffering common Indians

@HhshhsHh-dw3qq 8 ай бұрын

@@rangoman1815 Chinese bot spotted....

@sparky7915 8 ай бұрын

So sad that this kind of tragedy happens to good people.

@TheFoxxxxxxxxx 8 ай бұрын

@10:05 Why would you dub English with English?

@ArielMoriyah 8 ай бұрын

i just watched the movie. I had to know more. How dare they. How dare they do this to these people. Typical greed and disregard

@dirkeisinger4355 8 ай бұрын

A sad story more people need to know about

@shahidanusrat6086 8 ай бұрын

So sad 😢😭😢 and sorry 😔😢😔 my condolences from Pakistan😊. May Allah SWT bless India and its beautiful people from Pakistan 🙂.

@shahidanusrat6086 8 ай бұрын

@@M3ganwillslay manners

@nishantjoshi6393 8 ай бұрын

@@M3ganwillslaywhat a distasteful thing to say .

@user-hq8tb8dy4t 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for your prayers

@blessingosa9488 8 ай бұрын

I saw the highway men. It’s disgusting to threat ppl like that.

@MandoDando 8 ай бұрын

Humans..........how can some be so beautiful and others be so horrible and evil?

@prabath5693 8 ай бұрын

One of the greatest tragedy 🙏💔

@rajubejjanki1057 8 ай бұрын

Bro "greatest" word... 😢

@Treehandler 8 ай бұрын

Just learned about this from the TPMKY podcast

@hujjatullah97 8 ай бұрын

The government should relocate the people and restrict the area.

@anh304tuan 8 ай бұрын

😢😢😢. Where is government to help these people ?

@snicker576 8 ай бұрын

Heartbreaking

@Goldenfly737 8 ай бұрын

i hope every indian watch this and have protest this problem will make indian youth weak

@saqib87 7 ай бұрын

Shame on them who didn't take serious action on that time. and left many Diseases forever and paid only 500$ for each life, so shame 😢😢😢 May Allah give patience to all their families. Aameen love from 🇵🇰 ❤

@abdulrahmanbulo333 8 ай бұрын

Everyone has the right to the highest attainable standard of protection against natural and man-made hazards.

@reenapalav8000 3 ай бұрын

Government should have arranged houses camps out side toxic town. To stop further consequences😢

@Ashu-r6d 6 ай бұрын

I'm from Mangalore and I have a friend who is from Bhopal his father was one of the survivor

@roxcastaneda 8 ай бұрын

Terrible indeed

@sakshamgoyal8737 8 ай бұрын

this issue needs to brought up more, until union carbide pay the price for there crime.

@sejaldgupta 7 ай бұрын

Instead of putting voiceovers in a different accent, it would have been better to hear them speak with subtitles down below as an assist. Me being an Indian, I was able to understand them as well as the voiceover, but it was a bit a hard to comprehend and their real emotions weren’t really justified through the voiceover. Kindly take note of this. Thanks for the brilliant information.

@sunitarawat3745 7 ай бұрын

I dont have words . More power to u ladies ❤😢

@mr.chicken9085 8 ай бұрын

Thanks to share this,I know watch this and can't do anything is so difficult,but I'am from latín america the things over here become difficult too

@medusagorgon8432 8 ай бұрын

Germany offered to help and there was protest?! Who protested and why? That would have been worth mentioning. If the original offer was not a good solution, why not work together to create a better one. To do nothing is unacceptable!

@ayushkumar-bg1xf 8 ай бұрын

the culprit was given safe heaven by countrries like uk and usa

@Vlogmukeshmahay2446 8 ай бұрын

I cry My heart 🩸 no words , and our Media 😢

@kaustuvdas129 8 ай бұрын

If Government is not bothered about it's own people why will any company bother doing anything. We only understand corruption when it's related to money. That's it. Anything beyond is gibberish to people at large

@patrumba4899 6 ай бұрын

Why does not the mainstream India media shows this…..oh wait they are busy covering Ayodhya !! What a shame !!!

@Rohitsharma-kr7bt 5 ай бұрын

What’s the problem is with ayodhya. There is hundreds or thousands videos on it. You can go and check bjp had asked congress about this a lot of time. That time Indra Gandhi was the pm who allowed to this people to make MIC.

@ZevZev630 7 ай бұрын

THIS IS A GREAT 😢😢

@syedmohdgulamasghar8809 8 ай бұрын

Is it not a admissible evidence for prosecution ? 🤔😢

@cluedin 8 ай бұрын

Don’t forget this was a union carbide plant

@Rekhayadav-nl8lk 8 ай бұрын

Why we have to use pesticides and build plants for it which is hazardous to human and environment. Can't we use compost for our grains.

@veeragandhi 8 ай бұрын

Why cant many Indian companies spend their CSR amount in educating affected population around this disaster on adoption of antinatalism?

@AyeofRa 8 ай бұрын

Curses to the people who chose and continue to choose profit over people.

@tinkerbella7433 7 ай бұрын

Does the company take responsibility? NO, instead they get the unconditional immunity of US citizenship. LEGAL Impunity. And unconditional US and INDIAN government support.

@MWEric 8 ай бұрын

I remember the 84 disaster back then I was a News junkie not so today.

@WoodstockG54 8 ай бұрын

What kind of compensation did the company pay? I would imagine, not much.

@salehali1935 4 ай бұрын

Actually they paid 470m$ in 1989 (equivalent to 1.01 B$ in 2023) to indian Gov, but due to corruption it went to the pockets of the government officials and the area is left in miss.

@captbdeb 3 ай бұрын

My grandpa was a trainee at Misrod Station, felt very proud that misrod was mentioned in the Netflix show Railwaymen , at that tym my grandpa was on leave . But after going back there he came to know that one of his trainee friend was missing , and never found after the tragedy .

@Mitu_Dutt 4 ай бұрын

Whole world is now sitting on volcano waiting to erupt.

@mahidipatel 8 ай бұрын

Khali coment kerne se kya hoga nobody interested in this scary story nobody can take action kitne Sarkar aye or gayi Always and every where Suffering common man praja trast hai neta mast hai...

@gajadharbipasha1262 7 ай бұрын

What kind of factory was it??

@browningcq 8 ай бұрын

Jeez all of this is going on because some guy forgot to replace a filter 40 years ago. That entire region is still messed up economically over that incident as well. It was going to be a giant money-making area. What a freakin’ disaster. Folks will be still be getting screwed by that incident 100 years from now.

@nochipsonlycrisps8639 7 ай бұрын

Been saying it. We should treat western corporations as an extension of western diplomacy. Only then will the incompetence be curbed.

@nagsen4921 8 ай бұрын

Thanks DW news for covering this. Our foolish PM can understand the feeling of this people.

@DWDocumentary 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.

@angela_2653 6 ай бұрын

Read A Breath of Fresh Air by Amulya Malladi. Fantastic novel about the Bhopal disaster

@cartoonsandcannabis 8 ай бұрын

What a world 🌍

@Pbav8tor 8 ай бұрын

Think of this in relation to East Palastine, Ohio. Who come out whole? Not the poor citizens, but the rich owners who are not held to account.

@prasanthalpha 8 ай бұрын

The strategy of the current govt is: 1 Don't talk about it 2 Blame Rajiv Gandhi 3 Call the people who talk about it Urban Naxals

@kruava2291 5 ай бұрын

Was an American company and german scientists

@ss-ib8gm 7 ай бұрын

pesticide is npt needed please go for organic

@Shree12344 7 ай бұрын

It feels like this incident is on fire again !

@JAKphoenixify 8 ай бұрын

Most of the affceted have seen less than a quarter of the 470 million package

@Fly_high138 8 ай бұрын

What they were making?

@ar_krrish 7 ай бұрын

The population is booming like anything and people are literally living everywhere! There’s a limit upto which any government can do anything! Medias just want to portray everything as government failure! Instead of blaming you do something!

@vaibhavbalki 26 күн бұрын

😢

@aymanitani4212 8 ай бұрын

It’s scary to know that such a nation might be a superpower soon

@streetsarecold 8 ай бұрын

India was a superpower until Brits invaded

@rooftopmunda 8 ай бұрын

Thanks

@toddtomaszewski4626 8 ай бұрын

They already are a superpower. A very highly educated superpower that understands the definition of power and the consequences of power.

@gooseface2690 8 ай бұрын

The chemical plant was owned by an American company

@bumfuzzel4512 8 ай бұрын

@@gooseface2690Wrong. The company was owned by India.UCIL Union Carbide Indian Limited. Inform yourself.

@rarindraprakarsa4376 8 ай бұрын

Two words that familiar when I was kid in Indonesia: "Bhopal" and "Chernobyl".

@shuvammallick3936 7 ай бұрын

Back then atleast there were true reportings. I feel ashamed as a 'Native indian' now. Bharat is witnessing a massive shift from democracy to electoral dictatorship. Bharat bjagya bidhata🙏🏼, (btw i was born to a pure hindu family)

@rickgolder6818 7 ай бұрын

India is a democracy and will always remain one. The leaders are what we choose them, the reason BJP is winning is because people believe in them and not Pappu. Being a hindu or muslim has nothing to do with it, thats just propaganda opposition is spreading (btw i am from bengal, and it would be 100 times better if BJP comes in place of TMC). The main reason why BJP wins is there leadership and what they have done in all these years. India finally have a chance to become a much greater nation, and no one is going to give that chance away by voting pappu. People knows this. Unless a good opposition leaders arise, BJP will keep on winning. Ao rather than blaming BJP, it will be better to ask Cogress to give good leaders, and not a idiotic madman who only cares about votebanks.

@randomplebian461 7 ай бұрын

We have had horrors like the emergency, Congress banning books/slander against its top brass post-independence, an entire effing exodus of KPs going underreported & buried etc....is that the democracy you cry for? I say that as a person proud Hindu who also knows the failings of BJP as a political entity that uses Hindutva as one of its major publicity strategy. If you expect us to vote for the circus that is Congress atm, it would be better to give a solid opposition to BJP at the centre.