The World - News from March 10, 1989
Indian police arrested 2,000 people who tried to march on the Madhya Pradesh state legislature to protest Union Carbide’s $470-million settlement in the 1984 Bhopal poison gas disaster. About 5,000 demonstrators, many waving banners saying “We Want Justice,” marched from shantytowns affected by the gas leak toward the legislature. The arrests were made as the marchers tried to cross a police barricade. Critics charge that $470 million was too small a settlement.
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