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Rainbow Warrior here, Indian corporates beware
Friday, 07 November 2003, 20:30 IST
MUMBAI: Rainbow Warrior, the Greenpeace ship that symbolises environmental activism, is docked here to campaign for corporate accountability in India.
The ship is on a month-long tour of the subcontinent, Greenpeace India said in a media statement here. It has a crew of 15 people from 10 countries.
On her arrival at Mumbai port earlier this week, the city's sailing community turned up in sailboats and yachts to receive the Rainbow Warrior.
"Besides exposing industries and corporations that continue to poison our bodies and planet with toxic chemicals, this tour will revisit ship-breaking yards in the country to expose European ship owners who continue to dump ships for scrap and toxic wastes in our shores in violation of the Basel Convention and Indian Supreme Court directives," G. Anantpadmanabhan, executive director, Greenpece India, said in a statement here.
The original Rainbow Warrior had sunk in 1985 after the French bombed it following their nuclear tests.
Rainbow Warrior's maiden voyage to India in 1999 as part of the Toxic Free Asia Tour with the message "No More Bhopals" focused on the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal.
Cosmo Wassenann, captain of Rainbow Warrior, said the current tour is a follow-up of the 1999 Toxic Free Asia Tour.
"Greenpeace has traditionally used its marine fleet to focus international attention on crimes against the environment, the people or entire eco-systems of a particular region.
"In India we'll be focusing on crimes related to toxic pollution and of course putting out the message that the world must remember Bhopal," Wassenann said.
Tonnes of lethal methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas came out from the Union Carbide pesticide plant on the night of December 2, 1984, killing some 1,750 people instantly and maiming thousands for life.
Source: IANS
Source: IANS