ABSTRACT
The lack of mandatory laws and norms governing multinationals, legal complexities, and government failures are serious obstacles in ensuring justice for the people of Bhopal, and for the victims of corporate complicity in crimes against environment, peoples' lives, and safety. Industry observers opined that the financial losses coupled with plans to dismantle the Bhopal plant had aggravated the negligent management practices at Union Carbide India Ltd. The tragedy assumed such massive proportions that the law, administration, and healthcare services proved woefully inadequate to tackle it. A 2009 report by the Gas Tragedy Relief Department had said that the morbidity rate was 20 percent among the Bhopal gas victims as opposed to 5 percent rate among unaffected citizens. Some experts opined that Union Carbide Corporation had aired the "sabotage" theory only to avoid paying huge sums as compensation to the Bhopal gas victims. The struggle also received support from activists and student groups in other countries.
