[news] Garments Worker Killed and 200 injured, Bangladesh

[Gordon Flett]

Dear Gordon,

Greetings. One Garment Worker Killed And More Than 200 Injured By
Police. One garment worker named Kamal was killed and more than 200
injured including 20 bullets injured following series of clashes between
Police and garment workers at BSCIC industrial park in Fatulla,
Narayangoang near to Dhaka city yesterday 3rd November.

Six injured including one bullets injured are NGWF member. More than a
dozen police personel including an assistant superintendent of police
(ASP)and tree sub inspectors (SI)were also injured.Several garment
factories,vehicles and offices also damaged. In the BSCIC industrial
park area there was unrest situation in some factories named
Pantex,Tamanna, Obonti and Crony. There was irregularities in payment in
these factories. Workers demanded payment of outstanding wages, Festival
bonus and other facilities.

On 2nd November at night, there was a meeting on which Management,
labour leader and local administration participated.This meeting was
continued up to 3am on 3rd november. But it was failed and police
arrested one labour leader Mahmubur Rahman Ismail. As a result workers
became unruly. In this situation some hired people by management
threaten the workers.The situation became unrest and bad. Finally police
fired and after that the battle started between the workers and police
in different places. One worker named Kamal killed and more than 200
injured including 20 bullets injured. Police arrested 20 workers. All
the factories and offices till today 4th november closed in
Narayangong.Tomorrow 5th November, half day general strike will be
observed in Narayangong. Against this killing, in Dhaka city there were
many demonstrations. NGWF organized a Condolence & Protest Rally today
at 11 am . From the rally , the federation demanded:

1.compensationTk.500,000/ for the killed worker's family.
2.Sufficient and better treatment of all injured workers.
3. Unconditional release ( free ) of 20 arrested workers and
4. Fullfill the demands of the concerned factories workers.

Amirul Haque Amin
General Secretary
National Garments Workers Federation
4.11.03

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