
When Death Certificates Lie
The dead bodies of Smart Export Garment Ltd workers were covered with ashes, blackened. Some had minor burn marks. Continue reading “When Death Certificates Lie”
The dead bodies of Smart Export Garment Ltd workers were covered with ashes, blackened. Some had minor burn marks. Continue reading “When Death Certificates Lie”
Ultrasonic images of pregnant Mimi (pseudonym) taken less than a fortnight before fire broke out at Tazreen Fashions on November 24, 2012 burning to death 112 workers, according to the government and the BGMEA; the actual death toll, according to family members of missing workers, labour organisations and activists, is much higher.
Honourable prime minister,
I AM an unborn citizen of Bangladesh. I was killed before I was born. My mother was twenty-two weeks and three days pregnant with me when fire broke out at Tazreen Fashions in Nischintapur.
I was killed before I was born. Continue reading “Letter from an unborn child”