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Article: Bhopal campaigner's death highlights victims' plight.(Sunil Kumar Verma commits suicide)
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- World Watch
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- November 1, 2006
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Sunil Kumar Verma, founder of "Children Against Carbide" and a dedicated campaigner for justice for the victims of the deadly 1984 gas explosion in Bhopal, India, committed suicide on the evening of July 26, 2006. The 34-year-old activist was found wearing a T-shirt that said "No More Bhopals."
Verma lost both his parents and five siblings on the night of December 3, 1984, when 27 tons of methyl isocyanate and other poisonous gases leaked out from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh state. Since then he had been campaigning for just compensation for the victims and punishment for those responsible. In 1997, Verma was ...