40th Anniversary Of Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Differently-Abled Kids Pay Tribute, Netizens Seek Justice | FP Photo
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Differently-abled children of Chingari Rehabilitation Centre paid tribute to the martyrs of Union Carbide/Dow Chemical Gas Tragedy by lighting candles in front of the factory at JP Nagar in the city on Sunday evening.
Children with different types of congenital disabilities like Cerebral Palsy, Intellectual Developmental Disability, Downs Syndrome, Muscular Dystrophy, Hearing Impaired etc. participated in it.
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Managing Trustee of Chingari, Rashida Bee said that the aim of the event was to remember the pain and trauma their loved ones have gone through. These children also want to send a message to the world that the kind of tragedy that happened in Bhopal should not happen anywhere else in the world.
These children were not sacrificed by nature, the poison of Union Carbide/Dow Chemical has made people disabled. ‘We need to learn from this tragedy and build a world where companies cannot spread such poison and disabled children are not born,’ she added.
Netizens seek justice
While the entire nation is expressing grief over the 40-year-old Bhopal Gas Tragedy, netizens took the internet by storm with posts demanding justice for the victims and survivors who are suffering from congenital disabilities even today.
Take a look at the netizens’ reactions here:
