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To: kumar who wrote (44562)	9/16/2002 9:46:24 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) of 281500

I assume you are referring to Warren Anderson, Union Carbide Chairman, who was convicted "in absence" by the Indian courts with violating international law and fundamental human rights of the victims and survivors of the 1984 release of lethal gases from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India. That's a good case of where Indian Government was not blameless, but controlled the investigation and the trial. Union Carbide had no choice but to do a "Mea Culpa," and take the hit. The biggest lesson for American Businessmen out of that disaster was to stay out of India. Enron made the mistake of investing there, and it was one of the things that put them under.

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