The night of 2nd/3rd December 1984, known ever since simply as "that night"

Scroll down for information, photographs and resources on"that night"

PHOTOGRAPHS AND VIDEOS

An introductory view of the contamination at the site (hosted at www.bhopal.org)

Photographs by Maude Dorr

Photographs by Andy Moxon

Photographs by Dan Sinha

ICJB video of the 25 November 2002 survivors' attempt to begin a clean-up of the factory, caught police beating up survivors

INTERACTIVE

Virtual text-based tour of the factory (based on MUD technology) Coming soon.

REPORTS

Greenpeace report on contamination of drinking water (PDF 720kb)

Surviving Bhopal, Toxic present, toxic future: A Report on Human and Environmental Chemical Contamination around the Bhopal disaster site by Srishti For the Fact Finding Mission on Bhopal (January 2002)
(Word version 964kb)
(PDF version 772kb)

Summary of the contamination at the site (written 2001)

UNION CARBIDE'S SECRET PAPERS

Carbide's seret "poison papers" obtained by court discovery(November 2002)

Survivors organisations press statement on discovery documents

Excerpts from Carbide documents, with photographs and comments

CLEAN-UP ISSUES

People vs Poison (an op-ed on the survivors' 25 November 2002 attempt to begin a clean-up at the factory)

ICJB video of the 25 November 2002 action, showing police beating up survivors

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WHAT YOU CAN DO

Sign the petition to Dow Chemical asking them to accept their responsibilities and clear up the site.

Send a free fax to the Indian government asking them to enforce the Supreme Court order to provide clean safe water to the affected communities

If you are a student, consider forming a support group at your college. Details of how, resources and support from www.studentsforbhopal.org

Make a donation to the Bhopal Medical Appeal and help fund the free Sambhavna Clinic which provides free medical care to gas- and water-affected people