Monday, 4 May 2009

Power of the people

Power of the people


Khamin speaks to the survivors of the Barabkund slaughter in 1973 and recounts the corrupting factors that led to the first nationwide workers movement in newly independent Bangladesh


The RR Textile and Jute Mills workers
colony attacked on February 4, 1973
photo by Khamin
February 4 is a very important anniversary for the workers of RR Textile and RR Jute Mills, owned by the Bawani group of Pakistan before the war currently state-owned, a day when they wear a black ribbon on their chests. This day is for workers coming from outside districts, remembering the seventeen workers killed here 36 years ago.

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