ABSTRACT
In the middle of the night on December 3, 1984, over 40 tons of methyl isocyanate(MIC) and other lethal gasses leaked from the American corporation UnionCarbide’s pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. According to the Bhopal Peoples Health and Documentation Clinic (BPHDC) 8000 people were killed in its immediate aftermath and over 500,000 people suffered from injuries.1
