The Savar Tragedy
Farhana Hussain, On e-mail
I was shocked by Ms.Rubana Hun's obvious bias towards the owner of Spectrum Sweaters in her article, I cry, you cry: A manufacturer's perspective. (April 28, 2005).She is more concerned about the negative exposure the garments sector will suffer rather than about the workers who were dead or injured. So rather than media bashing like our revered politicians she should better solve the problem. In one place of her article she wrote that some workers told her that their owner was a "great guy" .But this "great guy" is a murderer who made a 9 storied building on four storied foundation which resulted in Bangladesh's biggest and deadliest building collapsed. This "great guy" didn't provide the rescuers with the building plan which could have saved more lives. And because of this "great guy" some workers died who were not supposed to be present on that fateful nightshift. These workers were forced to work when they went to draw their rightful monthly salary or else their salary would be withheld. And now when they are dead their families reportedly are not paid the salary yet, let alone compensation .The management is now telling the workers that they cannot pay the whole salary because they have suffered great loss. Ms. Huq said ,along with the factory management ,that the building collapsed because of a boiler explosion. But workers near the boiler at the time did not hear the boiler explode. All the facts that I have mentioned are collected from The Daily Star, so I hope nobody can suspect yellow journalism. To conclude I would say that even though my father is a garments factory owner, unlike Ms. Huq, who is a director of one such factory , I cannot defend the perpetrator of such horrendous crime. Who can support such a man without being blamed as a criminal.
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