We all know what the world's worst industrial disaster was: the gas leak from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal in central India.

众所周知，发生在印度中部城市博帕尔市的天然气泄漏事件，当属世界上最严重的工业惨案。造成此案的是联合碳化物公司于当地所开办的工厂。

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In Bhopal, which bills itself as the City of Lakes, patience is already at breaking point.

在博帕尔这个自称为城市之湖的地方，耐性已经崩溃。

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Around midnight on Dec. 2, 1984, an accident at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, resulted in 45 tons of poisonous methyl isocyanate escaping from the facility.

1984年12月2日午夜，位于印度博帕尔的联合碳化物公司的农药厂发生事故，导致45吨的有毒异氰酸甲酯从设备中泄露。

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"As the young people in Bhopal, the children of survivors have said, that now they will take it along and they will fight till complete justice is done."

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Facing a barrage of criticism for failing to get adequate justice for the tens of thousands of victims of the Bhopal gas leak, the government has said it needs to revisit laws pertaining to the kind of industrial disaster witnessed in Bhopal.

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And both Union Carbide in Bhopal and BP in the Gulf of Mexico were clearly investments that went wrong.

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The Bhopal Medical Appeal, which funds clinics in Bhopal, believes that Dow, which bought Union Carbide in 1999, should pay to clean the site and supply funds for victims.

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However, other recent mass killings whether accidental as in Bhopal, natural disasters as in Guatemala or India, or planned as in Chechnya, Rwanda, Tibet, Sudan or Iraq did not receive such sustained media attention and did not happen in the developed world.

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