A three-month long protest has brought hope to the victims of the 1984 Bhopal chemical disaster.
On May 29th, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agreed in principle to establish a commission that would carry out the victims' medical, social, economic, and environmental rehabilitation. He also promised that, by this year's end, Bhopali's will finally have safe and clean water...
"It was a day won by sheer single-minded, undaunted, persistence;" says the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal, who's currently blogging the protest. "A day that was the motivation for every painful step over 38 gruelling days; a day that has sustained the tedium, discomfort, personal risk and self sacrifice borne over 62 days of roadside life; a day that vindicated the Bhopalis faith in their own unflagging strength: the day the Prime Minister of India could no longer ignore the tide of approbation heaped upon him these last 100 days."
The protest isn't going to end any time soon, however. Not as long as Justice in Bhopal remains a myth.