Harvard, MIT students start 365-day relay fast to focus on Bhopal survivors

NEW DELHI: A group of students from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US have initiated a 365-day relay hunger strike in support of the survivors of the Bhopal Gas Disaster - the world's worst industrial disaster. A candlelight vigil and protest was organized at Harvard Square, Cambridge on 3 December to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the disaster. The hunger strike seeks to draw attention to key survivor demands: clean-up of the contaminated ...

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