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...Abdul Jabbar Khan, of the Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Sanghathan, a group for female victims, says the disaster poisoned Bhopal's soul. "The shame of Bhopal," he says, "is that there's no humanity here today. People began to spend their lives in queues, for ration cards, for hospital, for compensation. We became a city of victims, a city of beggars, with nobody caring for anyone else." Psychiatrist Santosh Tandon, 45, said the "disempowering" effect of the catastrophe, which left a whole city unable to provide for itself, was overwhelming. "The gas took away Bhopal's spirit," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bhopal: 20 Years After | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

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