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Hamida Bi, the Voice of Bhopal Gas Tragedy Victims for Over 30 Years, Passes Away -Anup Dutta

-TheWire.in

With a deep understanding of the extent of loss brought by this man-made disaster, she crusaded all her life so survivors could receive compensation and medical care.

Bhopal: Hamida Bi, an activist and the president of Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan (BGPMUS), who worked with thousands of desperately poor survivors of the 1984 tragedy passed away on Tuesday, December 29. She was 74.

Raeesa Bi, one of her close friends and one of the longest surviving members of BGPMUS says, “The cause of her death was the Union Carbide plant and not her old age.”

Hamida, herself a victim of the tragedy, mobilised other victims and protested on the streets of Bhopal demanding rights, proper medical care and compensation for those who had to suffer this man-made disaster.

“Why can’t gas tragedy victims, who are people from the weaker sections of the society, have proper lives?” Hamida Bi had asked in a soft voice from her narrow wooden bed, when this author met her at her daughter’s house in Kabitpura, a month before her passing.

Born in Bhopal, Hamida Bi’s protest has been long and sustained. Many of those who died in the tragedy were her relatives.

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