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<div align="center"><font color="#800000"><b>The Bhopal Gas Tragedy:
Reflections Twenty Years Later<br><br>
</b></font>A talk with <font color="#800000"><b>Rajan Sharma</b></font>,
Attorney for the Bhopal Victims in the class action lawsuit filed in the
U.S.<br><br>
<b>Thursday March 3, 2005<br>
</b>4:30-6:00 p.m.<br>
MIT Building 4-370
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**Free and Open to the Public**<br><br>
Includes a screening of the short film<br>
<i>“Twenty Years Without Justice: the Bhopal Chemical Disaster”<br><br>
</i>On December 2, 1984, over 35 tons of toxic gases leaked from a
pesticide<br>
plant owned by Union Carbide in Bhopal, India. 8,000 people died within
the fi<br>
rst week. Twenty years later, over 20,000 have died and tens of thousands
more<br>
have been affected by one of the world’s worst industrial
disasters.<br><br>
<i>Co-sponsored by: The MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice (PHRJ),
Association for India’s Development Boston/MIT Chapter, and the Alliance
for Secular and Democratic South Asia<br><br>
<b>Questions: contact phrj@mit.edu or 617-258-7614<br>
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