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BHOPAL VICTIM’S COMPENSATION CASE 2
The union carbide is a company that was manufacturing the pesticide and therefore it was
primarily in charge of the safety percussions, and consequently, it should be responsible for
compensating the victims. The united states of America government can also be held accountable
because the mother plant for union carbide is West Virginia; thus, the company is under the
jurisdiction of the united states and the international law. When it comes to the Indian
government, it should be held responsible because it had shares in the company and as well as its
citizens thus making the company to be under its jurisdictions (Pal & Dutta, 2012).
All the three parties should be held responsible and should pay the costs for medication
for the victims of this disaster. Starting with the united states, the country is developed, and it
knows the standards that are applicable when setting such a plant to avoid catastrophic
consequences by enforcing the best safety regulations, instead, the united states of America
employs double standards hen it is doing so the developing countries. The multinationals that
were operating in the developing countries are not enforcing safety regulations as they do in the
Turning on to the local governments, its Indian government should be held responsible
because it could not have allowed the company to set the plant in urban areas knowing its
hazardous consequences even though theirs the evolution of land use. The government of India
in 1984 had weak public health unfractured in Bhopal since there was no enough tap water and
that which was available was for a few hours and of poor quality. There was no functioning
sewage as well, and the untreated human wastes were being dumped to the nearby lakes which
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happen to be the only source of drinking water. The Indian government should pay around 50
percent of the cost followed by the united states the company should pay 30 percent and the
reaming 20 percent. This is because the Indian government was resistible for regulations laws
and unfractured for the cone apart from having shares in the company. The united states knew
standard regulations, and the company was the player in the business.
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References
Pal, M., & Dutta, M. J. (2012). Organizing resistance on the Internet: The case of the
international campaign for justice in Bhopal. Communication, Culture & Critique, 5(2),
230-251.
Sarangi, S. (2012). Compensation to Bhopal gas victims: will justice ever be done? Indian