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When I try to remember that night, I feel faint.

My head just spins.

What we have is a medical disaster, a human disaster, far larger today than 25 years back.

Bopal is not only a tragedy, but in terms of how the law is responded to it, it's a travesty.

The people of Bopal have really fallen into legal black hole.

In the early hours of December the 3rd, 1984, a highly poisonous gas leaked

from a pesticide plant at Bopal in Central India.

Methyl isocyanate or MIC spilled out and down onto the slum neighbourhoods

that were crowded around the plant.

A thick toxic cloud passed through the densely populated streets.

Imagine the terrible randomness, the whim of it, the direction of the wind,

determining whether you lived or died.

Within 3 days, 8,000 people were dead.

This is assignment on the BBC World Service. I'm Alan Little.

In this program, the lasting effects of that toxic night 25 years ago

and the ongoing fight for justice.

Do you get the help that you need?

No, no.

No, I do not get enough help.

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