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Garment Workers Rampage in Bangladesh
2010-06-22
Clashes between garment workers and police at Ashulia in Savar, Bangladesh have resulted in over 100 injuries including 20 officers. The workers demonstrating for a pay increase ransacked factories and damaged numerous vehicles on Dhaka-Tangail highway as police fired rounds of rubber bullets and tear gas shells to break up the protest. The violence ensued as thousands of workers barricaded the highway with trees and burning tires.
Police made two arrests on the scene and were preparing to file a case against the workers for assault on the officers. Witnesses said the conflicts began at the Nasa Group factories where workers were enforcing a work stoppage demanding an increase in minimum wage. After half an hour, 7000 workers exited the Nasa Group factories and melees broke out between the workers and police. Ismail Hossain, managing director of Sharmin Group, claimed that the outsiders attacked his factories without any reason.
The violence ended around after additional police and members of the Rapid Battalion were deployed to avert further trouble.
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