When over 200,000 people were injured or killed as a result of gas being released from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, the cause was attributed to a number of factors: the company saving money by not installing safety devices, the political arrangements that enable Union Carbide to build a plant in India, the people living in the vicinity of the plant being too poor to live in safer
locations, etc. Thus, the people were victims of:
a. structural violence.
b. soft power.
c. apartheid.
d. multiculturalism.
e. xenophobia.
ANSWER: a
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