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VIKAS YADAV, 11, and Aman Yadav, 9, second-generation victims of the disaster, both born disabled, with their parents Sanjay and Sharda Yadav in Bhopal on June 26. The GoM proposes to distribute compensation on the basis of an outmoded survey of disaster survivors undertaken shortly after the event, which would necessarily exclude many whose symptoms of exposure manifested later and those who were not yet born but now suffer from exposure-related illnesses or birth defects.-A.M. FARUQUI

Revenge of memory

The GoM report makes a vague promise about pursuing legal accountability for Dow Chemical but contains more to undermine it than to fulfil it.

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Widows and other family members of Bhopal gas victims, under the banner of Gas Pidit Nirashrit Pension Bhogi Sangharsh Morcha, protest against Dow Chemical and Union Carbide on the 23rd anniversary of the tragedy in Bhopal, on December 2, 2007.-PTI

Veil of deception

Dow and, by implication, UCC should not be allowed to conduct business as usual in India without accounting for the costs of the Bhopal havoc.

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A candle light vigil marking the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster, at India Gate in New Delhi on December 3, 2004.-S. SUBRAMANIUM

The return of Union Carbide

The Indian government, which has appeared to be a reluctant fighter in the legal action against Union Carbide in the Bhopal gas disaster case, now dec

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Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein before a judge at an undisclosed location in Baghdad. A file picture.-AFP

The Law of Empire?

The trial of Saddam Hussein and his former associates by the Iraqi government is another instance of the Bush administration's self-serving distaste f

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December 3, 1984: Victims on a Bhopal street, after the gas leak.-PRAKASH HATVALNE/AP

A criminal legacy

Even two decades after the disaster, Union Carbide refuses to face criminal charges and the Indian authorities, in breach of their obligation under in

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President Saddam Hussein makes a speech on Iraq's Army Day in Baghdad on January 6.-AP

The new world disorder

The U.S.' war efforts against Iraq represent a stark paradigm shift in the international system and a crisis for international law.

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