For 10 points, name this 1984 industrial disaster in Madhya Pradesh in which methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a Union Carbide plant.
The Bano case was brought by victims of this event, which is memorialized by a statue of a mother holding a child and one hand to her face. Arthur Little's report about this incident suggested it was an act of sabotage, and a yearly protest about this event burns an effigy of Warren Anderson on its anniversary. A fake spokesman named "Jude Finsterra", actually the prankster Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men, stated that the company involved would set up a 12 billion dollar fund for the victims of this disaster. This event was caused by the backflow of (*) water into a tank used to store the product of phosgene and methylamine from a plant that made pesticide. This disaster resulted in several thousand deaths by suffocation and circulatory collapse as the cloud of chemicals blew southwards. For 10 points, name this 1984 industrial disaster in Madhya Pradesh in which methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a Union Carbide plant.
The Bano case was brought by victims of this event, which is memorialized by a statue of a mother holding a child and one hand to her face.
{Bhopal} disaster