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August 29, 2008

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Demands Met, Bhopal Survivors End Hunger Strike

Bhopal hunger strikers © Pesticide Action Network North America

08/12/2008

Activists protesting the deadly 1984 pesticide plant explosion in Bhopal, India ended months of demonstrations and a hunger strike relay Friday, after the Indian government agreed to provide survivors with medical, social, economic, and environmental rehabilitation.

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