Fire a blowtorch at my eyes, pour acid down my throat.
Strip the tissue from my lungs.
Drown me in my own blood.
Choke my baby to death in front of me.
Show me her struggles as she dies
- From a Survivor's Poem -
"The
People just did not know what had hit them. There was no warning. Before anyone could realize the full impact of the disaster an area of about 40 sq. km., with a resident population of over half a million, was engulfed in dense clouds of poison. People woke up coughing, gasping for breath, their eyes burning. Many fell dead as they ran. Others succumbed at the hospitals where doctors were overwhelmed by the numbers and lacked information on the nature of the poisoning.
By the third day of the disaster, an estimated 8,000 people had died from direct exposure to the gases and another 500,000 were injured. Today, the number of deaths stands at 20,000."
Anil Sharma, a Bhopal-based senior journalist, who has covered the tragedy and its aftermath for several newspapers in
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