In 1984 a pesticide leak from a factory owned by US chemical company Union Carbide killed thousands in the Indian city of Bhopal.<br /><br /> Thirty years on people continue to die, with cancer rates and foetal abnormalities high. <br /><br /> For the populace, suffering is a fact of life and the fight for justice and compensation continues. <br /><br /> Since 1984 Heera Bai has looked out on a different world: “It feels like I have cobwebs in my eyes, I don’t have light in my eyes and walking is difficult.”<br /><br /> Union Carbide paid out $470 ml in <br />compensation in 1989, but activists claim that 90 percent of victims received just $500.<br /><br /> Satinath Sarangi represents the victims and their families:<br />“Both governments and NGO’s have shown that up to three and a half kilometres around the factory and 20 metres underground are chemicals that cause serious problems, cancer, birth defects, still nothing has been done.”<br /><br /> In 2010 seven low-level Indian officials were found guilty of “death by negligence” and “culpable homicide not amounting to murder” and sentenced to two years in prison.<br /><br /> Not a single high-level American manager has faced justice.
