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Mid of child at Chingari Rehabilitation Centre, which provides medical treatment for children affected by Bhopal gas incident2. Close of blind child at Chingari Clinic 3. Wide of children undergoing physiotherapy at the...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e13 March 2012\u003cbr/\u003e1. Mid of child at Chingari Rehabilitation Centre, which provides medical treatment for children affected by Bhopal gas incident\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close of blind child at Chingari Clinic \u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of children undergoing physiotherapy at the clinic\u003cbr/\u003e4. Mid of 4-year-old Subhana during a physiotherapy session\u003cbr/\u003e5. Pan of 3-year-old Mohammad Imran Ali during physiotherapy at clinic\u003cbr/\u003e6. Tilt up from legs to child on an exercise machine \u003cbr/\u003e7. Various exteriors of Union Carbide Corporation factory\u003cbr/\u003e12 March 2012\u003cbr/\u003e8. Various of Satinath Sarangi, Managing Trustee at Sambhavna Trust, a clinic that offers free health care for Bhopal gas victims\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Satinath Sarangi ,Managing Trustee at Sambhavna Trust\u003cbr/\u003e\"Things are very depressing, more than depressing today in Bhopal. In many ways, people are worse than they were on the morning of the disaster. There are at least 150,000 people with chronic illnesses as a result of their exposure to the toxic gases. And now we know that the next generation is also marked by Union Carbide's poisons.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Various of Bal Krishna Namdev, Bhopal survivor and activist showing his medicines\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Bal Krishna Namdev, survivor and activist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We did not get suitable treatment nor did we get appropriate compensation. Despite all this, we have kept our struggle going. We are hopelessly troubled, and I am still sick. I have so many medicines and I am fed up of taking all these.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13 March 2012\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of family in J.P. Nagar, a neighbourhood near the old pesticide factory\u003cbr/\u003e13. Tilt up from plastic urine pouch to the face of a survivor\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of survivors talking to each other\u003cbr/\u003e15. Close of 13-year-old Vikas Yadav\u003cbr/\u003e16. Pan from Vikas Yadav's deformed feet to deformed feet of his brother, 11-year-old Aman\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Hazra Bee,Survivor and activist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"If Dow is involved in the Olympics and if the government does not boycott it, it will send a very wrong message to the gas-affected people in Bhopal.\" \u003cbr/\u003e18. Various of patients sitting in Sambhavna Clinic\u003cbr/\u003e19. Various of doctors examining patients\u003cbr/\u003e12 March 2012\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE (English) Satinath Sarangi ,Managing Trustee, Sambhavna Trust:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We find that the issue of Olympics is one which allows mobilisation of public opinion on this issue. And that is the big reason why we feel that Dow Chemical chose to get into Olympics. For Dow, Olympics is like the Ganga in which to dip and wash away its crimes. It would whitewash its crimes, not just in India but everywhere, all over the world.\" \u003cbr/\u003e21. Various of the memorial statue built by the survivors adjacent to the Union Carbide Corporation factory wall\u003cbr/\u003e22. Various of the plant inside the Union Carbide Corporation factory from which the poisonous gas was leaked\u003cbr/\u003eSurvivors of the world's worst industrial accident have seized on the London Olympic Games to try to highlight their plight in front of the world.\u003cbr/\u003eThousands of people died and as many as half a (m) million were sickened more than 27 years ago when clouds of lethal gas escaped from a Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India, and swept across the nearby ramshackle homes. \u003cbr/\u003eThe survivors, with their lingering illnesses, sick children and dead relatives, faded away from the world's memory, even as their suffering went on. \u003cbr/\u003eNow, though they are demanding that India boycott the London games.\u003cbr/\u003eThey accuse Olympic sponsor Dow Chemicals, which purchased Union Carbide in 2000, of owing them compensation for their sorrow. The chemical giant disputes that.\u003cbr/\u003eThe survivors ordeal however continues and many residents of Bhopal are still receiving medical treatment for their illnesses. \u003cbr/\u003eActivists say that thousands of children, born to parents directly exposed to the gas leak or poisoned by the contaminated water, are suffering from various degrees of brain damage, cerebral palsy, stunted growth, cleft lips, missing palates, cancer and breathing disorders. \u003cbr/\u003eChingari Rehabilitation Centre, a non-profit organisation in the city provides facilities for physical and speech therapy to help affected children.\u003cbr/\u003eFour-year-old Subhana attends the centre to receive help for her sensory disorder problem and the three-year-old Mohammed Imran Ali, receives physiotherapy sessions for his thin, twisted limbs. \u003cbr/\u003eChingari, which means \"spark\" in Hindi, is being run by two survivors of the incident.\u003cbr/\u003eThe centre reflects the scars left on Bhopal's minds and bodies which are far from healed.\u003cbr/\u003e\"There are at least hundred and fifty thousand people with chronic illnesses as a result of their exposure to the toxic gases. And now we know that the next generation is also marked by Union Carbide's poisons,\" Satinath Sarangi, director of Sambhavna Trust, another clinic for the affected said.\u003cbr/\u003eBal Krishna Namdev, a 55-year-old survivor, is also an activist for other victims.\u003cbr/\u003eHe is still under treatment for severe breathing problems. \u003cbr/\u003e\"We did not get suitable treatment nor did we get appropriate compensation. Despite all this, we have kept our struggle going. We are hopelessly troubled, and I am still sick. I have so many medicines and I am fed up of taking all these,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eEven today it's unlikely to walk past a dozen houses in the narrow alleys of the poor areas that circle the compound of the old pesticide factory without finding a family caring for a child with twisted limbs.\u003cbr/\u003eSanjay Yadav is a survivor whose two sons Vikas, 13 and Aman, 11 are suffering from deformities.\u003cbr/\u003e\"If Dow is involved in the Olympics and if the government does not boycott it, it will send a very wrong message to the gas-affected people in Bhopal,\" said survivor and activist Hazra Bee who has been campaigning for better compensation and medical treatment for the victims. \u003cbr/\u003eThe survivors of the gas tragedy blame two entities, their own government and Dow Chemicals for their suffering: the government for ignoring their pain and negotiating a low compensation, and Dow Chemicals because it bought Union Carbide and has said legal claims from the disaster have been resolved.\u003cbr/\u003eSo far, pressure from survivors' groups pushed the Indian Olympic Association and the Federal Sports Ministry to write to the International Olympic Committee asking for Dow to be dropped as a sponsor. \u003cbr/\u003eThe sports ministry also hinted at a possible boycott of the games.\u003cbr/\u003eThe IOC has maintained that Dow was not responsible for the gas leak and the company would continue as an Olympic sponsor. \u003cbr/\u003eDow Chemicals, who is sponsoring a 11 (m) million US dollar decorative wrap that will be installed around London's Olympic Stadium, had distanced itself from the responsibility for the gas disaster long before its association with the Olympics. \u003cbr/\u003eThe company, says that the legal case was resolved in 1989, when Union Carbide settled with the Indian government for 470 (m) million US dollars.\u003cbr/\u003eThe company says all responsibility for the factory now rests with the government of the state of Madhya Pradesh, of which Bhopal is the capital.\u003cbr/\u003eBoth survivors and activists argue that in fact Dow's legal responsibilities are far from over. \u003cbr/\u003e\"For Dow the Olympics are like the Ganga in which it will dip and wash away its crime,\" said Sarangi, referring to the dip devout Hindus take in the sacred Ganges river as a cleansing ritual.\u003cbr/\u003eIn recent years the long dormant case against Dow has heated up.\u003cbr/\u003eIn February 2011 India's Supreme Court issued notices to Dow Chemicals and Union Carbide Corp. saying it will begin hearings on a petition filed by the government asking for an additional payment of 1.7 (b) billion US dollars as compensation to those killed and injured. \u003cbr/\u003eThey say that its purchase of Union Carbide also makes Dow responsible for lingering contamination and other issues.\u003cbr/\u003eIgnored by their own government, the victims hold on to the hope that by protesting Dow's Olympic sponsorship they will force the 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