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Posted on August 29, 2008 - Total Views 84007
Burial of an unknown child
Burial of an unknown child. This unknown child has become the icon of the world’s worst industrial disaster, caused by the US multinational chemical company, Union Carbide.
The struggle still continues.
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Tags : 1984 • Chemical Company • Industrial Disaster • Photo • Struggle • Union Carbide
August 29th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Soooo SAD…once again, thinking of lost dreams and desires…this poor baby will never have a future in this body. I pray for his parents. What a tragedy…innocent lives extinguished.
August 29th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
This is sad
August 30th, 2008 at 2:43 am
The Bhopal gas disaster was the worst industrial incident ever happened. The day this image was taken several thousand people have been killed the night before by the gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant. More than 100.000 people have been effected by the gas. Many of them still suffer from the results of the exposure.
But that night 1984 was really just the beginning. Union Carbide, which is now part of DOW chemical, successfully refused to cleanup Bhopal since nearly 25 years. Remaining pesticides in the Union Carbide plant now poison the water in Bhopal. Hundrets of damaged children every year are the result. Neither Dow Chemical nor the Indian government see any reason to clean up Bhopal.
This image is the most famous one in a series of image Raghu Rai shot over the years. It became the symbol of the Bhopal disaster and didn´t lose any of it´s emotional power over the years.
Find more about Bhopal on http://www.bhopal.org and http://www.bhopal.net
Roman
August 30th, 2008 at 6:50 am
Next time I see a Union Carbide product, I ll remember this pic
August 30th, 2008 at 8:55 am
“caused by the US multinational chemical company, Union Carbide.”
say no more, say no more
August 31st, 2008 at 5:55 am
someone tell me why ? وحشتناکه
September 1st, 2008 at 4:39 am
yashar: its all about money. The plant in Bhopal was not productive any longer, so they’ve cut the budget. Less money, means less security. The result is well known. For a multinational concern like Union Carbide aka DOW chemical, the life of the Bhopalies suffering from the disaster and its legacy (water poisoning, chronic illness, damaged children, etc) is worth less than hard Dollars.
Unfortunately the image didn’t change the world much after all. Union Carbide and DOW Chemical are still unpunished for their crimes and not even the Indian government seems to interested in cleaning up Bhopal.
September 1st, 2008 at 2:02 pm
[...] Burial of an unknown child [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 4:03 pm
What actually happened? How did this child die and many others?
Very sad and disturbing photo
September 1st, 2008 at 6:59 pm
tender, succulent, juicy, thers nothing quite like American BBQ
September 1st, 2008 at 9:53 pm
WORM FARM!!
September 1st, 2008 at 11:05 pm
well booboo, Ill never top that one so i wont even try….
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:24 pm
why are they unbury a baby?
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:39 am
the company will say “no more, no more”
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:44 am
we are livin’ in america america america, wunderbar, alles klar…
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I was just about to say something very stupid, idiotique, and funny trying to make fun of other people feelings.
But I ‘ll shut my mouth now.
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:48 pm
ok I do for you…
look out mr hand youl fall in too!
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:27 pm
world is unfair to the baby???
September 4th, 2008 at 2:46 am
Union Carbide and Dow Chemical have never been held fully accountable for what happened that night. Between lawyers and the twisting of facts they wormed their way out of truly being called to task over the horrors that they allowed to happen in Bhopal. The pittance they were made to give the Indian government never found its way to the community that suffered the catastrophe of that night. To this day, almost 25 years later they remain uncompensated. Not only do the survivors of that chemical soup still suffer interminable hell, but the ensuing generations have been born with horrific birth defects and excruciating cancerous growths. The water and soil has never been decontaminated. We cannot allow industry to get away with treating humanity like this. If we do not inform ourselves and speak with our pockets on matters such as this, then we too are doomed to suffer the same treatment as the people of Bhopal It is only a matter of time.
Web search “Bhopal disaster” and you will find a wealth of information on this problem.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:08 am
ah…well, here we go again. Lets say you are a little late to work, you still decide to stop at “dumping-doughnuts” for a coffee. You get back on the road and do 37mph instead of 35mph to make up time and then….you hit a pothole spilling the coffee in your lap. This causes you to careen into a van full of youth on a field trip, smashing them into the median and horrifically killing them all. Do you have to go back and clean up the bodies? Do you clean up the spilled motorfluids? No, because that’s different right?(yeah, right, be blind to it) The problem here is that accidents happen, companies (get this) want to make a profit, and sometimes the methods or people using them are unproven. I don’t support union carbide out-right, but there are too many things that I depend on being made by evil corporations to blame any single company. I guess if I were REALLY that self righteous, I would quit my job, homestead a piece of land and raise the local edible flora and fauna to survive. Call me a hypocrite….
September 5th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Are you in here Arm? Im looking for you!
September 5th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Cao ni zu zong shi ba dai !
September 6th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
whaaaa?
September 6th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
who is this child?…
September 6th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
hey, theres peyote growing out his navel, its baby mescalito!
September 7th, 2008 at 6:20 am
same things happening at israel now also…
September 8th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Union Carbide was later acquired by Dow chemical.
Someone mentioned they would think about this when they see UC products, think about it when you see DOW products instead.
September 8th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
think about it when you see products from India, they allowed this tragedy, in fact they invited it! barbaric people, even now they are burning good Christian Churches.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Union Carbide hired an engineering firm to determine what went wrong. They assert that the cause was deliberate sabotage by an employee which overloaded all safety systems.
In any event, Union Carbide put about $12 million toward the victims right away, and established a hospital and medical trust based upon the sale of it’s stake in the plant (It owned 51%, the Indian Government the other 49%). As of 1991, that trust
was worth $100 million toward the treatment of problems. Union Carbide settled with the victims for a subsequent $470 million. Much of that money was tied up by the Indian Government until c.2005.
To my knowledge, no independent investigation was done to either corroborate or refute the sabotage allegation. If the plant was truly sabotaged by an employee with some sort of grudge, then Union Carbide is|was not the humanity hating entity everyone makes it out to be.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
makes you wonder why everyone blames UC and no one blames the indian gov…..guess the us is an easy fall guy, people actually begrudge it when you help them out, they end up resenting you when they should grovel at your feet
September 12th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
PLEASE moderate the comments. There’s some incredibly offensive/insensitive stuff here.
September 12th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Yes, please moderate, Brendans comment is very offensive to me!
September 21st, 2008 at 2:19 am
straszne i smutne…takie rzeczy wogole nie powinny sie dziac!!
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:25 pm
twotone…
you don’t know the ground realities in India. Those churches were burned for a reason. Though I don’t agree with arson, rioting and violence what the missionaries are doing in India is also wrong.
“The other day a missionary
descended on a famine area with money in his pocket, distributed
it among the famine-stricken, converted them to his fold, took charge of their
temple and demolished it. This is outrageous. This friend goes and gets it
demolished at the hands of the very men who only a little while ago believed
that God was there.”——–Mahatma Gandhi.
September 25th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
@Understanding….yes, I see it now, your absolutely right, their churches should be burnt, women raped and men killed. Thanx for straightening me out on that, geez, sometimes my own ignorance is just amazing! Course they arent killing the missionaries, they are killing their fellow Indians who convert…that makes it ok in my book!
September 25th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
is this really where rutabagas come from?
September 26th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
i don’t know what is more disturbing, the photo or the attitude of some people here…
The comments should be moderated or disabled!
September 26th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
this child will burn in hell for being unbaptised and Godless!Please people, baptise your children in the name of Jesus so they wont burn in hell.
September 26th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Very disturbing comments. waddup/koko/BooBoo and the like should really total up the collective IQ and real thought process of the group of them. My casino bet is that the total is less than a 10 year old’s shoe size. I say that, since that if you read thier blatherings, it is obvious that this is a childish rant of a young mind that does not know what is going on, or has gone on in this world. If this group consists adults, or at the very least individuals that are capable of procreation, I hope that they are sterile. That thought process is not needed in the human gene pool.
September 27th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
@hector, damn right spic boy, get em! Anyone knows that aint no rutabaga, thats a parsnip!
October 4th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
To 40th Comment by Christian Nation
“this child will burn in hell for being unbaptised and Godless!Please people, baptise your children in the name of Jesus so they wont burn in hell”.
i dont really understand the reason behind baptism but why would a little baby who doesn’t know anything be burnt in Hell, why is your Lord so unkind to babies ;S they cannot even defend themselves becoz they do not know any better. it doesnt matter if a baby is batised or not, its just a tradition.
the Muslim tradition is called “Al kekah” the reason behind it being just a celebration of thanks to God for the blessings and the truth is everyone is born a Muslim, they were created by the One God and to Him they shall all be returned to be judged (and God is most fair and merciful).
the matter however, is that people are born into a family of another religion (other then Islam) and so are brought up by what their parents believe (religion).
October 6th, 2008 at 10:25 am
what the **** is wrong w you people how would you feel if that had been your child decieced and ppl were sayin that shit about this pic?
October 6th, 2008 at 10:36 am
I agree with KP. Look at what you’re saying, this child died before it could really live and you are all cracking jokes. You should be ashamed.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
thank you toni i am glad that you agre ad yeah you should
October 7th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
thats not a real baby thats a doll.
October 13th, 2008 at 10:29 am
are you ****** stupid? ok so no no little kids ever die and the world is sunshine and roses…….not this shit happens when ppl go to war…..kids die…..and that doesnt look like a doll it is a little child that was killed and this is how you react it is not a baby…..well at to see what kind of denial you would be in if your child died….that isnt my child it as a doll it isnt a baby……yeah come on now
October 16th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
to number 17 McCain:
Thank You
October 17th, 2008 at 1:08 am
thats not a real baby.
October 17th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
This isn’t sad. It’s a conscious result of capitalism and greed.
October 18th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
this would be sad if it were real, but you can easily tell this baby is made of plastic. Didnt any of you foreigners have dolls when you were little?
October 23rd, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Hey barbie, have you ever seen a dead body going through decomposition? Because that’s exactly how they look. I’ve seen them :/
October 26th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
very sad and cruel world we live in.
October 28th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Good post.
October 29th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
@ barbie
It’s easy for people to like you to deny facts.
I still remember the day, this photo was in front page of all newspaper few days after the tragedy happened. Do you think a whole nation is naive to mistake a doll for a doll.
October 29th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
*It’s easy for people like you to deny facts.
October 29th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
* Do you think a whole nation is naive to mistake a doll for a baby.
November 1st, 2008 at 11:53 am
i am “extremely” sorry to see such tragedy
November 5th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
oh for gosh sakes, what a bunch of crybabies! babies are aborted all over and a picture of a doll gets you all upset. So easily manipulated, bury that little ***** back up and get on with it pussies.
November 6th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
dese pitchers be remorselessly revolting, why dem white folk wanna look at dem?
November 10th, 2008 at 12:00 am
too bad! people who did that really deserves to die tsk tsk tsk tsk. a child is an angel they shouldn’t do that. a child has a right to live in this world, a god’s creation.
November 12th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
ya’ll are red neck arses, where as i am a red azz neck.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Barbie, I hope you die a painful death for that comment. It’s not a freaking doll you ******. You can tell from a picture what something is made of? WOW that’s quite a power. It’s called DECOMPOSITION. You know, when a body begins to ROT. Jesus. Abortion is COMPLETELY different than a child killed by an accidental gas leakage. Abortion is BEFORE THE CHILD IS FORMED, not 4 years old with memories and emotions. Abortion is also generally when the people can’t take care of it, or when they’re raped, I mean some people do it for stupid reasons and unqualified reasons btu that doesn’t make it okay. A lot of people are NOT okay with that, so why would you think that just because people have abortions that automatically that must mean everyone thinks it’s okay so therefore seeing a child that was killed by toxic gas buried in the ground just a regular every day photograph?
SERIOUSLY?!?!
People like you make me lose all hope for humanity!
November 13th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
There is no hope for humanity. Only outside humanity.
This just proves humanities evilness. Abortion, famine, murder, war - it all is death to the undeserving.
November 14th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
oh get off your high horse, you sound to me like you had an abortion yourself, and hate yourself for it. Still feel guilty dont ya? try condoms instead of abortion as your chief form of birth control and you wont have to murder any more of your babies. get over it and stick to what you know. Anyone can look at this foto and see its a hoax, look at those eyes, a real baby would blink.
November 15th, 2008 at 10:48 am
yup, its obviously a fake. if anyone puts their hand that close to my eyes, i’m swatting it away. i say we nuke that site, just to be safe.
November 16th, 2008 at 1:54 am
Chilling.
November 16th, 2008 at 7:20 am
As a “child of the internet” I must say I’ve been pretty desensitized and not much bothers me.
This picture really got to me though.
November 16th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
On the contrary “barbie” a doll would blink when it was laid down like that, a dead baby will not. It’s the way they make ‘em, to be lifelike. You are not funny. Your attitudes, whether real or manufactured for the sake of creating some kind of controversy pollute the intertubes.
Or am I being unjust and your pollution was merely some kind of ironic juxtaposition to comment on the awfulness of a life snatched away by the combined actions of corporate vampires and government ghouls?
Nah, I didn’t think so.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
its….awful!
but its a common thing in the world….we have jast like to whatch it …not more exactly!
November 17th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
That baby was killed by PKK . U can search at google.
November 17th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
oh come off it you idiots, look at that skin tone, plastic…think i cant recognize a doll when i see one? talk about gullible people, where you all come from, the cabbage patch?
November 18th, 2008 at 10:50 am
BARBIE YOU STUPID AMERICAN MOTHERFUCKER! GET A BRAIN! That skin tone is like that because that baby is dead you idiot. Your body wont stay the same when you die, you know that?
November 18th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
U SUCK!!! DAT PHOTO IS KINDA DISGUSTING!!!! TEE HEE!! WATCH NIGAHIGA!! TEE HEE! TEE HEE!!!! HOO HOO HA HA.
November 20th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
poopoo brain!
November 20th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
I believe you are correct barbie, that appears to be some sort of mannequin.
November 23rd, 2008 at 5:43 pm
to christian nation
Haven’t you heard of the age of reason? this child will not burn in hell because (s)he couldn’t be more than 4 years old! i can;t believe you would even say something like that.
oh and barbie? thats not a ******* doll!
anyone else who is so insensitive with their comments, think about if you had a child and they end up dead like this one. honestly think about it, would you want to go on the internet and find comments like the ones you left? you sicken me.
November 23rd, 2008 at 5:46 pm
oh and lol….
though you might swat the hand away if it were close to your eyes,
how exactly are you supposed to do that if YOU’RE DEAD. when i read peoples opinions like that, it makes me truly hate being human.
November 23rd, 2008 at 11:50 pm
that was my point ******, the baby isnt dead. it was all fake like the holocaust…i wish people would open their eyes instead of being blinded by liberal nonsense.
November 25th, 2008 at 9:26 am
once again another sad image ******* america has provided us with
November 28th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
God, America causes so much shit. All of the worst disasters in the world are almost always America’s fault.
November 29th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
I believe that this is a real child, but there’s reason to be skeptical. Last year when Israel invaded Lebanon in retaliation for Hezbollah kidnapping 2 soldiers, the papers and internet were filled with photos of the devastation coming from Israeli rockets. Then some blogger noticed what the NYTimes and others had not. Many of the photos had been photoshopped, others had been staged. One of my favorites was the series of photos showing rescuers searching through rubble and then finding a “victim” who coincidentally looked and dressed identical to one of the searches in the earlier photos. Remember that the news bureaus use stringers and freelancers from the region, many of whom have an axe to grind and bias even stronger than the media’s. They stage photos and the world trusts them.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:11 am
Interesting blog! Some information
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December 4th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
this not real baby, this jewish person, bury him back up!
December 7th, 2008 at 3:42 am
Similar theme read on what that already a blog, but here certainly it is described more interestingly. Thanks the author of a blog.
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December 7th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Thanks from that comment REAL POOPOO. I hate jews.
December 11th, 2008 at 2:04 am
Come on “real poopoo” people, the holocaust did happen.. You idiots. And yeah shame on America, but honestly, shame on America for producing and raising people such as “barbie”. FYI, humans, and other species, do in fact decompose. So maybe “barbie” needs to adjust her vision from playing with herself, and other dolls all day and learn that there is a difference between dolls and children. Lets not have history repeat itself, and stop being god damn ignorant.
December 14th, 2008 at 2:36 am
you must expect everyone to be as gullible as you, while you finger your keester, fagboy.
December 14th, 2008 at 8:41 am
what had the child done to deserve this…???
December 18th, 2008 at 5:01 am
A nice smoke never killed no baby….
December 20th, 2008 at 6:08 am
hi, I’m an idiot.
December 21st, 2008 at 2:21 am
Are you stupid? Obviously this picture wouldn’t be in an article titled “Photos that changed the world” if it was a fake. Man you are stupid. I bet you didn’t believe the pregnant 5 year old was a real story either? And don’t call me a fagboy. I’m a girl. And you in fact, are an idiot. Thanks for admitting it!
December 21st, 2008 at 4:17 pm
I’m a bigger idiot.
December 21st, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Right on.
December 22nd, 2008 at 2:07 am
I’m not a natural blonde.
December 23rd, 2008 at 5:57 pm
real baby, dead baby. Im just wondering where the KY is at???!
December 24th, 2008 at 2:13 am
So you’re just stupid by choice then? Like everyone on here with a real mind, has said… Its real. Suck it up barbie. Not everyone is a stupid fake doll like you.
December 25th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
so sad what the human is posible to do to kill a pore defenles baby i hope that they are proud of themselfs *******
December 28th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
indignance&rage Says:
November 23rd, 2008 at 5:46 pm
oh and lol….
though you might swat the hand away if it were close to your eyes,
how exactly are you supposed to do that if YOU’RE DEAD. when i read peoples opinions like that, it makes me truly hate being human.
GOOD, GO KILL YOURSELF AND MAYBE YOU CAN REINCARNATE AS A ******* TREE
Anon Says:
November 28th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
God, America causes so much shit. All of the worst disasters in the world are almost always America’s fault.
OK well on behalf of America I apologize for saving the Worlds *** twice, I apologize for helping in times of famine and civil war. Instead of just having a god dam seizure on the ******* internet puking your ******* nonsense on here tell me what we did, when we did it, and give me some ******* evidence you piece of shit.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
> to Ryan (98)
You saved the World twice ??… if I well remember you weren’t the fearless kind of example in WWII; and should I thank people for sorting their dirty business alliances with others (Bush/Hitler).
I don’t hate Americans, I do hate their self-righteousness.
You didn’t even exist before 1776 !!….
January 1st, 2009 at 1:13 pm
It is SAD that in serbian SAD is a shortcut of “Sjedinjene Američke Države” which means “United States of America”…
January 4th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Man that look gave me goosebumps