- GoM on Rajiv and Bhopal: sloppiness or cover-up?
- The Hindu archives refute GoM’s Rajiv Gandhi claim
- Text of Group of Ministers report on issues relating to Bhopal Gas Leak Calamity
- GK Reddy – “PC Alexander brought facts to Rajiv Gandhi on Dec 7th before Centre intervened to secure Anderson’s release & flight to Delhi “
- Here is The Hindu’s dust-up of archives from 1984 on G.K. Reddy’s report on safe passage to Anderson http://is.gd/cXXsG
- Govt of India has no record of safe passage to Anderson, GoM relies on Hindu’s archives http://is.gd/cXWPP
- So Warren Anderson goes to meet MEA Secy Rasgotra in US Embassy car along with US Embassy charge-de-affairs Gordon Streeb http://j.mp/9WogUb
- LA Times Dec 9th 1984 reported that Warren Anderson met with MEA Foreign Secretary Rasgotra to discuss Bhopal Gas issue http://is.gd/cSgI9
- Palm beach post 1987 reported Gordon Streeb of US Embassy spoke to MEA Foreign Secretary Rasgotra who spoke to PMO or PM himself to convince Arjun Singh
- Full story of Anderson bail and departure from December 1987 Palm Beach Post http://j.mp/9tBmdE details of MEA interaction with US embassy
- http://j.mp/bDhDrR not a single report of mob violence in Bhopal over gas tragedy in December 1984
- time magazine detailed reprt on Bhopal dec 17 1984 no mention of any mob violence exposes misleading claims of Anderson’s release on Law and Order grounds, fears of mob violence http://j.mp/cEpiah
- De-classified CIA document from 8th December 1984 on Bhopal is all of 1 paragraph, rest blanked out http://is.gd/cLsUc
- A dispassionate reappraisal of events of late 1984 is very much in order to put Rajiv Gandhi’s cold political calculations into perspective
- Contrast it with the fact that Rajiv Gandhi actually conducted a national political campaign even as horror in Bhopal continued to unfold
- Look at the flak Obama has received for going about his political routine during BP Gulf Oil crisis where nobody died
- Guess it speaks to how independent the media was in India back in 1984
- Can you imagine today a landslide victory, utter decimation of opposition, absolute majority in Parliament after presiding over 5000 deaths
- Will Historians ask why it was so important for Rajiv Gandhi to rush to polls in Dec of 1984 riding on more than 5000 deaths in < 60 days
- In retrospect mind numbing to think that despite few 1000 Sikh deaths in Nov 1984 many more 1000 deaths in Bhopal India still went to polls
- Indian Express connects the dots between American pressure, Rajiv Gandhi and Arjun Singh http://bit.ly/aW0gJU
- John Dean’s account of India stint is also fascinating for perspective into South Asian geopolitics from the mid 1980s
- Page 20 Ambassador John Dean’s notes on India tenure http://is.gd/cKMve “telephone call from DC told to stay out of legal confrontation”
- Dec 10th 1984 “Reagan Administration protested Anderson detention, was released to avoid undermining Indo-US relations” http://is.gd/cKMdn
- More from 1984 “delicate negotiations between Indian and U.S. Governments” and “violation of promise of safe passage” http://is.gd/cKLIU
- Crystal clear back in 1984 itself on who let him go – all this brouhaha on whodunit is phoney, buck stopped with Arjun Singh & Rajiv Gandhi
- More from Sudip Banerjee’s Dec 1984 press conference http://is.gd/cKDh7 “Anderson was released becoz he was not needed for investigation”
- Sudip Bannerjee was the then Madhya Pradesh state government’s Information Director http://is.gd/cKD0b
- Statement by Madhya Pradesh Government spokesperson Sudip Bannerjee from December 1984 on why Warren Anderson was let go http://is.gd/cKCFZ about 22 hours ago via web
Filed under: betrayal of aam admi, DesiPundit, Emergency Reparations, UPA-II Critical Appraisal
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