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Sabita Rani, 35, sits in her kitchen in Savar, Bangladesh, Nov. 30, 2012. Rani, an operator at the Tazreen Fashions garment factory, escaped the fire that killed more than 100 workers on Nov. 24. According to Rani, the factory manager did not let workers escape after hearing the fire bell, but Rani jumped from the third floor to save herself after her colleagues managed to break a window.
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Tahera Begum, 25, lies inside her room in Savar, Bangladesh, Nov. 30. Begum is an operator at the Tazreen Fashions garment factory. Begum became mentally ill and lost her memory after escaping a factory fire on Nov. 24, according to Begum's husband.
The Daily Star has written about Begum here
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Harun-or-Rashid, 24, sits with his wife Reshma, left, 20, inside their room in Savar, Bangladesh, Nov. 30. Harun and Reshma escaped the Tazreen Fashions garment factory fire that killed more than 100 workers on Nov. 24. According to Reshma, the factory's workers rarely performed fire drills. Reshma broke her right leg after jumping from the third floor to escape the fire. Harun said they will leave their job and return to their hometown in Munshiganj.
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Ale Noor, 35, sits inside her room in Savar, Bangladesh, Nov. 30. Noor is an operator at the Tazreen Fashions garment factory. According to Noor, she broke her left leg after jumping from the fourth floor to escape a factory fire on Nov. 24. Noor earns 3,000 Taka, about $37, per month, but says the factory's workers have had to protest to receive pay each month as the factory's management never paid salaries on time.
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It is absolutely heartbreaking the death toll and consequences these poor women and men must live with because of the greed and lack of morals corporations, owners, and managers have. To think victims were ordered by managers to return to their work after fire alarms sounded, exit doors were then locked. And managers deliberately forced workers to stay, knowing they would die, is beyond comprehension. Such monsters will not escape justice, but pay for these crimes against humanity.
I pray all the survivors including those described in these photos may one day find peace and a better way of life far from such ugly working situations. I hope as a result of this fire and the second one that occurred two days later, Americans anger changes in buying, will help force the companies involved to ensure factories in this country enforce safety regulations so lives will improve and no more will perish from such fires.
The woman who is now mentally ill from the horror of this fire broke my heart. Her eyes are so haunting. I pray these people recover and are able to get safer working conditions.
buy AMERICAN and union made this is what happens in right to work countries or states take your pick