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Article: Bhopal justice denied. (Behind the Lines).(Greenpeace locates Union Carbide fugitive Warren Anderson for extridition to India; United States refuses to extradite)
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- Multinational Monitor
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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GREENPEACE IN AUGUST CALLED ON THE U.S. STATE Department to arrest and extradite international fugitive Warren Anderson after the group located him at a house in Long Island, New York.
Anderson was the chief executive officer of Union Carbide when an explosion at his company's pesticide plant in Bhopal, India caused the worst industrial disaster in history in December 1984. Up to 8,000 people died within three days of the disaster.
Recently, Greenpeace visited Anderson at his Long Island home and delivered a copy of an Indian arrest warrant.
Anderson has been facing charges of culpable homicide and an extradition request from the Bhopal Court in ...