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This report was submitted in April 2000 to the then Vajpayee government in India

In December 1984 a toxic gas cloud from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal silently enveloped the surrounding city. The gas ate away at victims’ lungs and throats, causing the deaths of up to 10,000 people. Warren Anderson, the man many people consider to be responsible for the world’s worst industrial tragedy, continues to defy attempts to hold him accountable.

The Sundarayya Vignana Kendram, a renowned library, cultural and research centre has been striving for the last two decades in preserving the composite cultural heritage of the Indian civilization. The attack on such a renowned cultural centre is totally unacceptable. It is against all norms of civil society. We are concerned with the increasing acts of cultural policing and fascist attacks and call upon the civil society to reject the politics of intolerance, hate and vandalism.