Nida 7 months old girl, with congenital birth defect sit with her mother during a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday,29 April 2008. Parents of five children with congenital birth defects from Bhopal presented their case of negligence of the Indian government towards the next generation of victims of Union Carbides poisons in a press conference. All the parents demanded that the Indian government should take special medical care of the victim children, social and economic rehabilitation should be done and safe drinking water should be provided to the people who are affected by the poisonous gas. They also demanded that government should take legal action against the Dow chemical. In 1984 more than 4,000 people died in Bhopal after a cloud of gas leaked from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsi

Photographer: A Sarthak

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