in Dec 1984, a poisnous gas leak killed 20,000 people. America refuse fo handover the man responsible, WHY?

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took place in the early hours of the morning of December 3, 1984, in the heart of the city of Bhopal, India, in the state of Madhya Pradesh. It was caused by the accidental release of 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas from a Union Carbide India, Limited pesticide plant owned by Union Carbide.

The BBC gives the death toll as nearly 3,000 people dead initially, and at least 15,000 from related illnesses since,[1], while Greenpeace cites 20,000 total deaths as its conservative estimate.[2]. Bhopal is frequently cited as the world's worst industrial disaster.
Beginning in 1991, the local authorities from Bhopal charged Warren Anderson, who had retired in 1986, with manslaughter, a crime that carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Anderson has so far avoided an international arrest warrant and a US court summons. He was declared a fugitive from justice by the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal on February 1, 1992

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_gas_tragedy#Charges

Answer 1

Yep. Dow Chemical/Union Carbide...VERY powerful multinational corporations with VERY wealthy stockholders in the US, you can bet they are blocking his extradition. I think Amnesty International is working on it though.

Answer 2

exactly what do you want the US to do? stage a midnight raid on everywhere he MIGHT be. Is that going to bring back any of the dead or make life easier for any of the ill? You can't hold one man to blame for things his underlings didn't do, especially when he wasn't even in the country. I'm sorry, but as much as these people need compensation, This is not the way to go about getting it. You should attempt to go ater the Indian government for restitution, since INDIA was as much to blame by not doing inspections, and allowing so many bribes of government officials to look the other way when things started going wrong. Indian politics is as much at fault as is Union Carbide. And before you say well, sheis just another American, she WOULD say that, I'm not. I'm in fact Canadian, and think Union Carbide acted horrendously as did the Indian government.

On top of that, it was proved in both Indian and American courts that the leak was the work of sabotauge AND UNION CARBIDE COULD HAVE NOT KNOWN IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. its equivalent to someone sueing you because someone you know murdered their brother

Answer 3

Well, he's an old man now... 85...

And I'm not sure if there's an extradition agreement between the US and India. If there isn't, they're SOL.

Answer 4

If he's avoided the federal court summons then America is NOT refusing to hand him over. There's a difference.

So why did it take India 7 years before they charged him? Sounds to me that they should have done something before he retired and came back to the United States.