Obama is the president of US,not us(India).
His country is affected.
He does not have crooks who let the Company off the hook,nor does he have Cabinet Ministers who had interests(still have) in Union Carbide.
He does not have a rotten investigative Agency which does not want to file a case properly, whose then Director does not ‘remember’ the case details.
Nor US have a judicial system where the Judge of the case does not ‘remember an affidavit’ by the victim.
Above all if if your house is burning you have to douse the fire ,not a guy who who is miles away from your home.
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The anger goes beyond that of campaigners or activists with some of India’s best-known writers and journalists weighing in.
“It looks like Indian children’s lives are cheaper than [those of] fish,” Chetan Bhagat, the country’s best-selling writer, said. “Obama should bang his fist on the table. If he can do that for fish, how about our kids? Or are they only Indians?”
The Pioneer and Hindustan newspapers ran headlines last week repeating the charge that the US reaction to the Gulf Coast disaster, which has killed 11 people, and to Bhopal, where at least 15,000 died as a result of exposure to toxic gases leaking from a US-owned pesticide plant, was evidence of double standards.
“Everything that Obama has said about BP and the spill was what the US should have said about Bhopal,” said Suhasini Haider, one of India’s best-known TV journalists who chaired a prime-time discussion comparing reactions to the two disasters. “There is the question of compensation, the way Obama has gone after senior executives personally. This is the exact opposite of what happened with Bhopal.”
One reason for the anger lies in the timing of the Obama’s address to the American nation on the oil spill, which came a week after the first verdicts in a criminal trial related to the Bhopal disaster.
Seven Indian managers at the plant were sentenced to two years in prison and immediately bailed by a court in India. Warren Anderson, the then chief executive of Union Carbide, the American firm which owned the plant through an Indian subsidiary, has never faced trial and attempts by Indian governments to extradite him from the US have failed.
“It seems ridiculous that there are such small punishments for [Bhopal] and at the same time we are watching the US getting so agitated about the spill,” Haider said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/23/india-barack-obama-bhopal
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