We woke up with our eyes and throats burning. My young son was screaming, 'Who has burned so many chillies?' He was gasping and choking at the same time, we had no idea what had happened until our neighbor came and told us to leave because of the gas leak.

Rashida Bee

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The government knew that the methyl isocyananate gas could affect two or three generations but gave little support the women exposed to the gas, it looks like it will also affect a fourth generation as we see lot of young children coming here with birth defects 30 years on, so we will continue to fight on behalf of all these children who desperately need our love and attention.

The government and Union Carbide have done little to recognize these children as part of the disaster, so we felt we had to do something.