I had a wonderful childhood disagreeing paradise just opposite my home theres a big company. At dicks at an it. Thousands of people who work there. My father worked there too as a union man. I worked in the factory during the holidays so i could buy my 1st camera. Ethics at an it paid for houses food my studies it brought a lot of prosperity to families in the region this was the unquestioned reality of my youd. Need. One day. More than 50 years later an indian lawyer comes to my village. Parents ethics uncertainty has a dark and Hidden History buried in india. You run a factory in another country and you dont tell these people that its unsafe you dont provide any of the Safety Equipment you dump asbestos like this and then you leave. As a huge rise in the use of asbestos in india in around 1980008 increases a lot softly and thats because between 1980 and around 2004 i think as best just became fan then. In europe. It takes its image is a company that made us Business Products as best as is a mineral that can be mined by coal and yelled asbestos is made of 5 of these with them you know one fiber of his best is actually contains millions of small fibers which cannot be seen with a naked eye not even through an ordinary microscope none only was caught. In the early fiftys as best as fiber mixed with cement was considered a miracle product that was meant to last for eternity. Level in the home show we are fortunate in our industry and that especially to us and cement constitute what i call a Perfect Match to. This miracle product was used in the houses schools public buildings. Even the European Commission building brussels was back full of as best as problems it became a booming business and making the owners of it the exception and the ems and family one of the richest in belgium. In 1964 Scientific Research by american dr selek of proved that. As best as was legal. As a union man my father knew about the scientific proof he did his best to warn the workers but many of his colleagues became sick. Inhaling as best as fibers can cause bestows his lung cancer and measure tell your mom. Breathing in these fibers for even short periods of time can cause cancer the symptoms of this cancer can take many years to develop 15 years sometimes 30 to 40 years and there is no known cure. Why didnt my father warn me about the dangers. Why did he allow me to work in these deadly dust. Just before he died he even told me to leave the matter all on for him as best us was a thing of the past. I decided to ignore his last wish and proof that the company he worked for is part of a Worldwide Industry thats causing death and destruction to these days. According to the World Health Organization officially more entry on their 1000 citizens are expected to die from as a tell yo ma by 2030 in the e. U. Eric is an activist who founded a bit of an organization for victims of us best us. But by my dad was a technical engineer he started working at header net in 1953 he developed mesothelioma which was diagnosed in brussels and he died 6 months later in 1970 i mean it sort of was. So i had rock bottom ho so one of my sons told me that then the doctor had told him that morning that evening he told me mom you have the same illness as dad. And i managed. So i couldnt believe it it was incredible. To have quite a few weeks after just interview prince ross boss the way. She left behind 5 sons eric is the eldest of. Eric and his family lived in the shadow of the factory was in the 5 brothers all the exposed because of as best as in the environment. For them it was your house far from the company. You know just across the road the factory entrance was 50 meters away. Your back to the beds that loaded came in 100 meters away for we would take the kids to watch nice little. Not only their experiments but 2 of his brothers died of us business. So the shock for the momo each time we were just getting over our latest loss and bam more bad news hit us again so christmas is no longer the Family Gathering that it used to be. Good for me going on the vote. Before she died was refused compensation. And courageous lee started a lawsuit against a texas internet. Vulgarly youngcare a family claims ethernet knew that his vest is dangerous and harmful to health but the companys lawyer says it and it did not know and was not at fault and the fault mike that it ended with the knowledge they had at that time a term that acted as could be expected from any normal Industrial Company in similar circumstances so they are not i fault. That the executor and its policy has always been to minimize the dangers of us best us no want to eat our lungs were created by god to breathe in fresh air from the our dead it from the seaside but they werent created to breathe and dust will be glad i mean us you know when you cut its best oh so that you get dust filming and that is definitely not a good thing because of however the research we are. Pat down at the university of louisville proves that even at the moment of sawing hardly any as best as is released into the air and therefore the danger is almost 0. Manager from the 1st died of an as best as related disease. In 10761 that has became the president of the a i a. And lobbied hard to promote as best us. As best as in the environment is classified as an extremely low risk just like taking one beer per day. At the exit turn it flourished and soon became a Multinational Company with factories in the netherlands friends pain italy all over europe. Many international as best as corporations went bankrupt because of us best us victims lawsuits at exeter need to quote over factories from troubled competitors and so they became a dominant world player. In 1981 in a meeting at 6 internet has a new opportunity to benefit from. Fiber demand in developing countries is expected to continue to rise over the long term. Ethics internet soon acquired as best as factories in developing countries in Africa South America and asia india it takes internet at 5 factories. One of these factories in kind more is well known to the indian lawyer to brew mukherjee. The factories have been opened up yet to take advantage of blacks lol just so wonder why why are you here so were trying to bring a case here in belgium ive been trying to see the options but you know im portuguese according to millions its a quarter and caught a court case against. The text of the Parent Company saying that you knew very well when you were operating these factories that such best os was a costly jet and yet you operate at these factories negligent or a court case we were able to prove done since 963 they knew so no way they can say when there were definitely doubts in the ninetys until 2002 they cannot say that theyve no look at it its everywhere. Whats happened is nothing less than corporate homicide. If you made a decision that has cost the lives of people then you should be held accountable for him in a criminal court. I wanted to see time more myself but i was hesitating. Ive been exposed to his business my whole life like most of my village years my lungs are affected. And i think my father would have warned me. Not to go to india. Welcome to everything historys plants with with the home all in a texas a very nice sound bites in the end most of. The factory was built in the thirtys by an English Company ethics entered balls a company in 89 and named it everest. When as best as was banned in belgium in 98 at dicks internet kept as best as production going until 2002. Then they sold their business to an indian family. The current indian owners did not want us to film in the factory. So we can see better from the top. But local people took me into blue today rooftop which. Is of the multiplier. Effect does one go about the cyclone and india. Just brings also back memories you know its very similar even the roof of the factory is very similar. So many people work in the factory now now all it is a new i want to 150 people. And it runs 24 hours here create every day shifts like its 3 i read it 7 or 7. Clearly see the sheets over there being piled up and theyll be taken himself and his factory is for the north so should be for sold anywhere in the north. Best the seats roll back the pier the finest men cheat. Which are the ones to use in india. He Sells Everything from soaks through toothpaste and sweets so he selling a asbestos sheets with sweets. So what we know is that if i was a man and sheets off the sometimes top of the grade we can even see its already in these new sheets yeah at the edge of it its already started degrading and and then the 5 of us will come out from not. If you go anywhere in india yeah youll see 5 us men really think that because its being kind of strong Building Material that lasts for a long time that will protect you from the sun itll take you from the rain. Start to my your coach and he gives it to you see hundreds and hundreds of tonnes of asbestos. Since 997 when companies closed in the west the consumption of us best us products quadrupled in india. Used to see it on the bird flu most of which struck while i was walking and the fact of it didnt drive us kind of all that often up there double alters the war if. I had done that. It was brilliant or didnt sound just very good went on about just very good from what i saw this work is from some of the professions my father said sometimes they made with water so snowballs and yeah yeah yeah they do that this is being used in your kinds. But you didnt think any i saw the end of the band. Those opposed and then us home scratching if thats you know that. Says my wife had a lot never met another man in my life and i seriously you know you had me direct that is called it was less ok beaman is my live in the shadow of the factory. The house is built by the factory for the workers are entirely constructed from us the best the sheets. The area they live on is known as the as best as compound. How you feel about living in this house im become highly cheap to yourself i. Wont be able to spend just a wired you have to live there you have to be that. I lived until i was very happy. I used to do you need a small i did to you then and then they can go on i used to enjoy it they dont theyre in a classroom and on the other side of the fence there is waste werent you worried about them you scored a vote on it is a separate and resigned then they dump the guy as whom is quite separate from them. Which anita im not afraid of because i never knew of on the home of does the status baddies and im insane and the children didnt know either nono no one in the rich even the markers even on when i denied they were not. And when it. Occurred im ready. I think. Obviously asbestos crisis in the soil goats crawling just business. This is the everest Industry School over there. Understood him. With a get a quick tween. Age and 14 1st quarter we did his best this roof next to it i got. To see the fibers for these 2 styles breaking down. Not even any more but im saying no to the coming and going oh warnings little bit yeah its just totally legal so you know. When did this start 1998. 9298. 00 so thats ethics ethics tech yeah. But each case in belgium i got in touch with the canadian scientists and i guess have a they found that there was that really takes and it doesnt surprise me because i. Have to start waste 6 terry and there are 600000 i was a gap. Not just asbestos based company in the end possibly even south asia. 600000 square meters is the equivalent of one on there done 20 football fields. People for the flag and understandably i was in the 400 i looked up to the ground 3000 People Living on up the streets. But when. I was told one of them in the eye you can see the survivor you have the other burst with which i got which obviously had some of the gold on the meaning of you they were going i was legitimately going all over the little youre going to meet me imagine youre going to meet in the morning look a lot of them were over there going when youre young you are going to live at a special this is a close call unless it was a little bit sponsored you know of course yeah the noise of the of the going to anyone to go and look to the heart and a lot of them are still in there you know. That is a quality i still did it was just this why are you willing to make your only the point is that these are all cool people in the end and they give theyve got this land and you know theyre not told about the waste and as a consequence of building are no not at all they are out of this before making this building they got out of this fact. But as an International Activist eric has come to crime or to a to go with his legal case against it takes internet to be. Ok. I need to see how bad it has been reproduced your goal to duplicate it looks like they did such a good job. Went out to the 4th the subsidiary food at the factory more than any time all in calcutta and in climates a lot and the factory in modern shut down and they opened another one and gnostic in 1995. You are telling me that even though they knew dads as business well this is dangerous and they were going to stop you know forced to stop in belgium in 983 years before that deadline they opened up a new one the one i did they believe a day without a thick skin and i thought that they could continue on your factoring asbestosis knowing what they knew about the circumstances i specify also taken diseases in europe this is what what makes me mad and what makes me travel the world with the stuff. You have the stores use how many percent isnt going to lunch on monday and i know im suffering more when it is all but i didnt actually destroying viewpoint and because i really felt bloody. When i walk i grew from the idea up to temp and. Im becoming read english. I know that. Its not that i think. He should have 2. 8 thats 2 liters point it should be true but here we go to 1. 69 based on these factors i would give any man disability or their deepest and 30 minutes fiftys fiftys when you did these basics you seem to. Be also read these hands in raaz business and pointed up and put in machine. The situation of working with raw i suppose this change when it takes came or was its the same. Thing whatever they provided us with helmets to protect our heads. On the look ahead to the arctic the herds do not protect their bottom lines to protect their lungs they could give habits. And a document of ethics at their need of 81 we can greet it was important that the relevant homebase standards should be applied to subsidiaries. Yet we discover that the standards were never applied and the reason why they were never applied is also to be found in the same document is best as an health issue in most developing countries is not yet acute. I am the one that the body. Inspired by his father who organize similar makeshift medical centers to blue started working in india as a volunteer but looking at the length of time that they were exposed to asbestos they only exposed to asbestos could have been closed by no moderate. We need to find out when they were married to see when they were exposed. To help the people of crime or in the surrounding area with their medical documents here and. Some i was sorry its strange to see this logo here in india but if you leave off the everest you know its as if im back home to the us. To. Talk about stuff dr capacity. Next. Year. Im a surgeon i mean i was an associate professor with a lecturer in the department i dont need money from occupation medicine you can only earn money if you work for the company but if you work for the company you cannot diagnose occupational business so the only way you can do it if you dont want to work. Welcome you im suffering but i dont speak up in these otherwise ill lose my job i think you know i have young daughters and a son who is studying if i dont work of maine how will we survive climate wasnt so. Theyre going to know what im going in the one that im sort of ingrained in their life and even if they dont want them to die in their world live or die i mean its like i lived their lives like them or im in their work in their work and they dont know what they were like media because they dont know money. So you have got a disability bus and they dont 60 present 60. S. In their voice loss of weight loss of every day in order to eat going to agree probably has got to let it go kinds of events business lives on the bubble of the moment there and he needs some proper treatment by stating actually for a medical doctor not to be able to leave him completely. Familiar. It was made clear to me that my wife was also something. I was not her. I want her to live with me for a. Quarter of that is we have to face it. Everybody has to die. I mean they should not only did and then did it do the philosophy of life everyone has done this is what i would look like this is why i like. Father joseph you have been here for all of us you already did if you burials players even this only one boy you just 39 years old for not knowing that the man. Just died yet of course we are the same problem. The fact is that that was i think use thing but they did not provide a problem medical facility even for a daily check up in a place that was going to a very high density is that there was then only are 10 leptin is made. And again there are no official scientific statistics in india. Conservative estimates are that 100000. 00 people are affected by asbestos related diseases in india if yeah every day or every year but go in and record it its already globally the largest. Occupational disease asbestos sees globally and this is going to be replicated in this country its going to be going to be so they are not some nonsense say involved in that its not some. Other place but ive heard it as the only option. For. The 600 people who visited the makeshift medical center. The number of people diagnosed with those distortions this 125. For his lawsuit against antics entered it to write it on all of their testimonies. But on most papers i can see the name its a neat same name 6 yann for death period. Theres no conversation right for that period has no theres no compensation. Then there. We would like to thank you for welcoming us you have open your doors so we could talk with your we could meet new faces my mother she was 66 years old. These bleak and she was a man. We trusted and dont need they say didnt do us no dangerous but we realize that they lied. We told her that the polluters well be taken to justice and well pay for the cleanup there is nothing we can do for the people who passed away but we must be thinking about the future generation it starts down the it is compensation metronet has got to pay yes it. Was going to come out i dont. Even lady said you know i can thank you. And take it in these ideas on my hands. And believe me you know. I really i really long for you on my t. V. I mean di do we need to be really known desire we didnt yawn a month. And then you would know after that i mean regular i mean made up of were doing normal adamah best to stick with. Room. For 16 long years in the case of france was a young kid versus ethics and to meet the families laura has finally handed to an official verdict which hopefully if gets difficult would like it the court recognizes it turned its responsibility and states that. Ethernet as a multinational and world player knew or should have known that exposure to asbestos can cause mesothelioma and that they should have known this since the mid sixtys since we did on the system it is a bitch it off its like david against goliath we have this meeting goliath takes more time when the means are unequal groups. On. The boat. Resulting today france was young kara has won her battle for me im 30 m. Sons family and you have written one of the darkest pages in belgium Industrial History from the get it while you manufacture roofs but you prefer to stay in the shadow and we were able to prove to the court that they knew they knew. Very. Close to us from suarez who passed away confident rest in peace next to pierre pair paul and stuff ours. Is the fun we dont view we miss you. Its true i mustnt remain silent is a key. To him and i must bear up until this is all. This is a live satisfying. Time is short if you see. Erics victory has opened the doors for other claimants all over the world. I joined dugu in london to discuss whether he saw an opportunity for the numerous victims of crime or the 2 had some unsettling news he asked me what my precise connection was to british filmmaker rob more. After a while he started emailing and phoning in and giving numbers of other people at a certain point he came to my village hes a very nice guy. I was wrong to reveal that rob moore was a corporate sponsor. More now claims to have been a double agent but the fact remains that he infiltrated numerous anti as best as movements throughout the world is spying gathered information of activists from india thailand indonesia and vietnam. Information that could be used to him their day work and their claims against the as best as industry activists can now be tracked and killed. One of the things that makes me angry is it has the names and identities and photographs and voice recordings of all of these people without their permission. There are photographs in these files of him sitting with people are dying for me so he i mean vietnam so he is sitting with me zoeth musically im a victims and using them as a cover. To spy for the rest of his trees that really is something that makes me angry. As business is still being mined in brazil china and in russia in a time called is best. If you still exported to countries like india its a 1000000000. 00 business. Turns out more spying was funded by the biggest as best as Mining Companies in kazakhstan it proves how far they are willing to go to stop the banning of us best us as their mother. Was there now are you. As you have been hurting i met a lady. We meet me yet i am here to find you. For the 1st time in her life never traveled by plane its a big day shes invited to speak in geneva in front of the United Nations at the business and human rights forum. You can light up our air milosevic on behalf of the victims in india a good system but in a way it is all the victims of asbestos who will speak out today no to another mother no time and you know to an f. T. P. Other mother speaking out a mother who sees her children losing their health holding. To despair do you hope to meet someone from a text here to see circuit my she can see clearly in my Health Management or the c. E. O. Will be here but i dont think theyre going to come from both spawn measure balls back or what i bet theyll send someone whos got a big ear big homes only. It takes edgerton it declined to participate in our film because not all conditions are sufficiently yet in order to respond positively to your request. You are here to fight for the rights of the people of how nervous look at how it was you dont read the words many people from all over the world come to listen to you. Jordan river. Ever our own roaring. Fire fangs i mirella have come from india in my. I have seen school many good. Living a dream for live boy in the claws of the debt. Whatever it is when happy but not on what a bold dumb coming generation this would not survive one days. Work then i would of been them and hopin they headed so i headed to talks. I was told was that he does this this this this should be he did immediately. Turn it has got to pay the 2nd thing some compensation should be given to the victims and the 13 now does this as should be bad and good. And i write. Down differing in this group. C. I think we all care big on birth yet. We have handy and we have 2 more we have to handle you. Do not learn through all of their money. We should be. Mark we need only. This is only temporary. Once you know most of the good for you one thing is that. You know. Thats simply illegal this is not the way to. Do to know everything again. And i am. Crisis time as best as is still not on the list of banned products. During the assembly of the Rotterdam Convention countries take decisions on which hazardous chemicals will be banned. The convention meets the consensus of all the Member States major producing countries have blocked it since 2006 get a guest on kazakhstan russia zimbabwe and india. We have committed ourselves for the boarding house but all actors for a couple of more years are you living by doing good long with this chemical and the thing that is created man made has ill effects the only difference is the quantity and the exquisite isnt it you sound like a real specialist i hope one day your country will manage also to bend as best as cooks and. Says it looks like its going to take some time but in the end time means let me tell you that i get to diet mr that. I wasnt under the impression that this best us would die a natural death. And meanwhile more and more people died. During the convention i tried to talk to representatives of the russian as best as industry. Those are you speak english. Dont you know you only see the russian. When i talk to you about this situation in kazakhstan in russia well why not. Weary of for open discussions or for a. Lot of issues a great deal of like you i mean we understand that the prohibition of its use will lead to the loss of 100000 jobs which country here is willing to lose that many jobs which extra 186 percent of lung cancer gives advice dont tackle various kind of accusers there is no status fix about it will any of our international contigo does it want to live long skies of us and it only got up to us or thailand was just a logger i am still glitching you it is that you lot of b. S. That we consider that the adding of chrysotile us bestest in agendum 3 would have serious name. Of consequences for the economy but feel of the end all our citizens economy you fail a body other than. Your acquired consensus is not reached i propose that we simply evolve at that issue to the next call to the consideration for the next call the decision to ban as best as is once again are my postponed already. Reeling. Under a new rule by the Environmental Protection agency as best as is now legally allowed back in u. S. Manufacturing. A Russian Mining Company puts drums face on it as best as products too many people have died continue dying and will die because of as best us one can only admire the courage and determination of ordinary people take action and make a difference. And it looks like the fight for justice will continue well into the 21st century. My father and i had our differences. But i think he would agree that if we allow companies to keep putting profit over people. Is fish a circle of great will continue for eternity. Place. Blame blame blame blame blame blame. The frontline. Is quite as simple as it seems. To understand the world better we need to take a closer look at. The experience knowledge tomorrow. Its going to deliver. Grappling with some tricks. Expressing feelings i am not very creative yet but i would love to be considered an artist mandate looking for new perspectives. 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