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June 11th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The American chemicals giant, which is sponsoring a £7 million decorative wrap that will sheathe London’s Olympic Stadium, faces a £1.1 billion compensation lawsuit by the Indian Supreme Court over the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster in India, which is estimated to have killed 7,000 to 10,000 people immediately and another 15,000 in the past 20 years.
“Dow Chemical, a sponsor of this year’s Olympic Games, owns the company responsible for the Bhopal gas leak which killed 7,000 to 10,000 people immediately, and a further 15,000 in the following twenty years,” Amnesty International said.
“But Dow has never addressed the ongoing human rights impact of the catastrophe it caused,” the human rights group added.
The Bhopal disaster, dubbed the world’s worst industrial catastrophe, occurred on the night of December 2-3, 1984 at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in the capital of Indian Madhya Pradesh state.
The Union Carbide hammered a compensation settlement of £302 million with thousands of victims of the deadly gas leak in 1989 but survivors and activists say Dow Chemical legal responsibilities are far from over.
The activists say the Bhopal gas disaster site remains to be cleaned and children born to survivors of the catastrophe are born with severe health problems including cancer.
India’s Supreme Court informed Dow Chemicals in February 2011 that it is holding hearings on a government-backed call for an additional £1.1 billion in compensation for the victims.
Now, in the run-up to the Olympics, Amnesty International has set up an email campaign to call on the games organizers to review their unethical policy and boycott Dow.
“we need you to keep asking the Olympic organisers to review its ethical policy and stop defending Dow,” Amnesty said.
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