cyu
3rd June 2012, 13:40
[Same executives: http://www.revleft.com/vb/dozens-killed-bangledesh-t146575/index.html ]
http://libcom.org/news/return-repressed-new-days-rage-garment-workers-disappeared-27052012
a store room worker at the Hameem Group factory, is reprimanded by a manager for using his mobile phone. The argument escalates into a physical fight. According to the police...the director beat up Salman and handed him over to the police.
Seeing that Salman is still absent and hearing of the incident on Thursday, rumours spread that Salman was tortured to death by the managers and his body hidden. The workers gather, demanding to know what has happened to Salman - the Industrial Police arrive. The workers resist and intense fighting breaks out. A store room is set ablaze. clashes spill out onto the main Dhaka-Tangail highway where police make repeated baton charges and workers respond with volleys of bricks.
The Hameem Group workers call out workers from neighbouring factories to join them; soon thousands of workers are fighting with police.
in a crowd running away from a police charge a female garment worker, Nahar, 30, is hit by a bus and killed. Workers begin attacking garment factory buildings along the highway. the area is swamped by cops and the Rapid Action Batallion para-militaries.
Sunday morning, 15th May; with still no visible sign of Salman, 50,000 workers converge on the street. Hameem management and police bring a 'Salman' to the factory. "This Salman is not our Salman" and, unconvinced, unrest continues into the afternoon.
Eventually the real Salman is produced to the workers' satisfaction. The police rifle snatched by workers the previous day is recovered, found hidden under a pile of firewood.
Whichever of the two parties are in power, every Bangladeshi parliamentary term of office tends to follow a predictable route, becoming ever more repressive. In the past two years there has been a wave of unexplained disappearances of dozens of political opposition.
Aminul Islam was a former garment worker; elected by workmates as a convenor on the Workers Representation and Welfare Committee at his workplace. he later became a union organiser for BCWS. The BCWS was active in the 2010 campaign for a minimum wage. Mr Islam was arrested by the security services in 2010 and tortured.
He was last seen alive in April 2012 in the industrial area of Ashulia. Two days later his tortured body was found dumped by a roadside.
nobody is under any illusions as to the state security services' role in these murders.
http://libcom.org/news/return-repressed-new-days-rage-garment-workers-disappeared-27052012
a store room worker at the Hameem Group factory, is reprimanded by a manager for using his mobile phone. The argument escalates into a physical fight. According to the police...the director beat up Salman and handed him over to the police.
Seeing that Salman is still absent and hearing of the incident on Thursday, rumours spread that Salman was tortured to death by the managers and his body hidden. The workers gather, demanding to know what has happened to Salman - the Industrial Police arrive. The workers resist and intense fighting breaks out. A store room is set ablaze. clashes spill out onto the main Dhaka-Tangail highway where police make repeated baton charges and workers respond with volleys of bricks.
The Hameem Group workers call out workers from neighbouring factories to join them; soon thousands of workers are fighting with police.
in a crowd running away from a police charge a female garment worker, Nahar, 30, is hit by a bus and killed. Workers begin attacking garment factory buildings along the highway. the area is swamped by cops and the Rapid Action Batallion para-militaries.
Sunday morning, 15th May; with still no visible sign of Salman, 50,000 workers converge on the street. Hameem management and police bring a 'Salman' to the factory. "This Salman is not our Salman" and, unconvinced, unrest continues into the afternoon.
Eventually the real Salman is produced to the workers' satisfaction. The police rifle snatched by workers the previous day is recovered, found hidden under a pile of firewood.
Whichever of the two parties are in power, every Bangladeshi parliamentary term of office tends to follow a predictable route, becoming ever more repressive. In the past two years there has been a wave of unexplained disappearances of dozens of political opposition.
Aminul Islam was a former garment worker; elected by workmates as a convenor on the Workers Representation and Welfare Committee at his workplace. he later became a union organiser for BCWS. The BCWS was active in the 2010 campaign for a minimum wage. Mr Islam was arrested by the security services in 2010 and tortured.
He was last seen alive in April 2012 in the industrial area of Ashulia. Two days later his tortured body was found dumped by a roadside.
nobody is under any illusions as to the state security services' role in these murders.