http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4051755.stm
Forgotten hero of Bhopal's tragedy
By Faisal Mohammad Ali
BBC Hindi service, in Bhopal
Twenty years after the toxic gas leak at Bhopal in central India, BBC News reports on how casualties could have been much worse.
The daily express had been seen off from Bhopal and deputy station superintendent Ghulam Dastagir took charge of the night shift.
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This 'forgotten hero' was created by the greed of an American company called Union Carbide. Of course, it was people and not a company that was involved but no one knows who/where the people that profited from the 'low cost' operation or caused the event are. That's the beauty of capitalism and the free market.
Heroes often rise out of great natural disasters or actions of supreme idiots (at the expense of many/other's innocent lives). And it seems a lot 'nicer' to talk about them than those sacrificed. Perhaps it is better to numb the fools among us than to enlighten them.
The same goes with the American 'heroes' fighting for Iraqi freedom you read about in some papers nowaday...
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