NEW DELHI Reuters: A young Briton arrested in the central Indian city of Bhoay accused authorities there of ignoring the plight of victims of the world’s worst industrial disaster.
David Bergman a 21yearold Birmingham law graduate who cycled from Britain to help victims of the Bhopal gas disaster said in a statement that “neither the government nor the voluntary organizations have made any real attempt at rehabilitation of the people”.
He made the charge at a press conference at which police and government officials in the stricken city were accused of “persecuting relief workers and blocking private welfare action in order to conceal their own inactivity.
Bergman’s father Alan a London dentist said although his son was freed on bail last week “desperate to avoid the facts of the situation in Bhopal to become known to the public”.
The small Delhi-based citizens Relief and Rehabilitation Trust which is sponsoring Bergman’s work in Bhopal and issued his statement at the press conference said “Our basic experience in Bhopal has been one of unrelenting persecution”.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 19, 1986
