Young Bhopal Survivors Beat Executive’s Effigy
United Press International
BHOPAL, India —
About 200 children who survived the Union Carbide leak used sticks to beat the burning effigies of the firm’s former chairman early today at a rally marking the second anniversary of history’s worst industrial disaster.
The protest came at the end of a daylong strike that closed most businesses in Bhopal, 375 miles south of New Delhi. The Dec. 3, 1984, leak of toxic gas from the Union Carbide plant at Bhopal killed more than 2,000 people.
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