Bhopal - end 25 years of injustice - Documentary film

The chemical waste fields Bhopal
This was shot at the solar evaporation fields north of the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. Our guide here is Brian Mooney, Clinical Associate professor of Social Sciences at NYU, explains the history and current state of these chemical dumping grounds.




Inside the Union Carbide Disaster Site, Bhopal
This morning we sneaked into the Union carbide factory..a rusting hulk of metal and pipes. You will see the storage tank known as '610' which is where the deadly chemical reaction first started. We walk through the grounds that are overgrown with weeds and thorny bushes, past the derelict concrete buildings where many of the chemicals were stored. The perimeter wall is only 100 yards or so from the holding tanks and backing this broken boundary are the shacks of those who still live in the shadow of the factory. This was the worst hit community...with bodies all over the streets and the train line some 50 yards further ...my guide told me his father said that a train rolled by that night and cut thru these victims as they lay dead on the tracks. On the train itself very few survived...this has haunted his father for all these and he can longer talk about it.. almost as if the memory gets stronger. Next to the train tracks are 1000 gallon black water tanks that hold nothing ..the taps are dry and the residents here asked me to complain as no one listens to them!...