Taslima Akhter

  • The life and struggle of Garment workers
  • Dream & Reality
  • Death of A Thousand Dreams
  • Portrais of pain
  • Tazreen Fire
  • The Life & Practice of Lalon Shadhoks (Devotees)

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  • Song of Life
  • Interview by Karen Knorr
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Tazreen Fire

“Pardon me my dear I am going to die”- Julekha Begum’s husband said in a last phone call from the burning factory, he was trapped in to the fire, at Tazreen Fashion Factory  on 24th November in 2012.  Still Julekha can hear his husband voice.In 2012, 24th November Fire broke out at Tajreen Fashion garment in Bangladesh and killed 124 workers, the cheapest labor in the world. Many couldn’t find their relatives because most of the bodies were charred, like coal, or were only skeletons so they had nothing to recognize. How did they feel? When the fire was crawling, when they tried but found no way to save their life, what their feeling was? The cheapest workers of Bangladesh have become cheapest lives also for the factory owners, state and buyers.Garment workers earn only BDT 3000 (near about USD $37) per month as gross minimum wage till 2013. Workers of Tazreen Factory are the cheapest workers of the world, who bring 78% foreign currency as export income in year, who worked dawn to dusk only with the minimum wage of BDT 3000 taka (near abou $ 37), who have no proper minimum wage and life safety in an unsecured working place.The story is all the same. Workers were locked behind the Iron Gate and did not get any escape from the fire. Nobody knows the real number of victims. Many are still missing but their bodies not found. They were turned into ashes.

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When fire fighters teams are trying to rescue and to stop fire, the fellow workers and relatives are waiting infront of factory with their tensed look. . Fire broke out at Tajreen garment and died more than 124 workers and many are missing. Workers toil from dawn to dusk for a minimum wage of BDT3000 taka a month (less than 37 $) till 2013. 24th November 2012. Ashulia. Dhaka. Bangladesh.

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Fire fighters team is working but nobody knows how many workers can save their lives and how many died. 24th November 2012. Ashulia. Dhaka. Bangladesh

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They are looking for their friends and family members. 24th November 2012. Ashulia. Dhaka. Bangladesh.

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“Pardon me my dear I am going to die"- Julekha Begum's husband said in a last phone call from the burning factory, he was trapped in on Saturday.The fire, at a Tazreen Fashion Factory. at Ashulia, Dhaka in Bangladesh 24th November 2012.

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At late night 3am, in front of Ashulia police station this dead body is laying down into the car by police. Nobody knows her name, her trace, only the identity is she is a worker of Tajreen Garment factory. 24th November 2012. Ashulia. Dhaka. Bangladesh.

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Machines and workers both turned into ashes when fire broke out. Fire broke out at Tajreen garment and died more than hundred workers 25th November 2012. Ashulia. Dhaka. Bangladesh.

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Azizul Haque's house damaged by the fire and relatives who worked in the factory were missing. 24th November 2012

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One after one dead body is transferring from the factory. 25th November 2012. Ashulia. Dhaka. Bangladesh. Dhaka. Bangladesh.

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. Relatives, friends are looking for their beloved persons dead body at Nishchintopur School field, but cant trace because most of the dead body become ash. 25th November 2012. Ashulia. Dhaka. Bangladesh.

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Missing Workers of Tazreen garment from same family. Ashulia, dhaka. Bangladesh. 25th december 2012

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The pilled up dead workers in the morgue. These dead bodies have taken to Hospital mourge for DNA test . 26th November. Dhaka Medical Hospital. Dhaka. Bangladesh

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Workers of graveyards digging grave for 52 dead bodies, which couldn’t identified. 27th November 2012. Jurain Dhaka. Bangladesh

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Decomposed deadbodies are taken for buried. 27th November 2012. Jurain Dhaka. Bangladesh

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Protest rally against mass killing in garment. Dhaka.27th November 2013