Families mourn as compensation, rehabilitation, and justice for the tragic loss of lives remain elusive

As the Rana Plaza tragedy in Savar completes 10 years, family members and workers, along with representatives from various organizations, have paid their respects by laying flowers at the memorial near Rana Plaza at the Savar bus stand.

Emotions ran high as injured workers and their families with teary eyes, remembered the victims of the tragic incident that killed over 1,100 people. 

Bangladesh Garment Workers Trade Union Centre (GWTUC), Bangladesh Garments and Industrial Workers Federation (BGIWF), Garments Sramik Front, Garments Sramik League and several other labour organizations paid their respects with flowers in memory of the deceased.

General Secretary of Garment Workers Trade Union Center of Bangladesh Joly Talukder said thousands of workers were killed in the collapse of Rana Plaza 10 years ago, yet, compensation and rehabilitation for the families of the deceased workers and justice for the brutal massacre have not been delivered. 

“The arrangement of a lifetime income equivalent compensation and rehabilitation for the affected workers at Rana Plaza, ensuring justice for all those responsible for the incident, reforming the country's labour laws to make them worker-friendly and providing free medical treatment and government allowances for injured workers in all industrial sectors are necessary,” he added. 

Earlier on Sunday, several injured workers from Rana Plaza staged a hunger strike for three days at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka, demanding a four-point agenda.

On April 24, 2013, over 1,100 RMG workers were killed when the Rana Plaza, a 10-story building adjacent to the Savar bus stand, collapsed.