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Anger is high in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka the collapse of the Rana Plaza, in which at least 304 clothing factory workers . The tragedy is the latest and the deadliest in a long line of preventable accidents that has the country's garment industry. The government is the building's owners as to why more than 3,000 workers were to the building after large cracks in its walls the day before it . The government also wants to know why building safety standards were in its construction. Bangladesh's Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu told Bangladeshi reporters: "I wouldn’t call it an accident; I would it’s murder."

Thousands of furious garment workers through industrial areas of the capital on Friday. They fire to over 150 cars and at least two factories. They are at the shocking disregard for safety in buildings, child labour, and pay rates as low as 14 cents an hour. Questions are also being of Western clothing brands that on cheap clothing from Bangladesh to their prices low. Garments were inside the building with labels for some of Britain and America's top clothing stores. Western brands have a history of safety standards and working conditions in Bangladesh and other countries. Labour activists have the brands to help for safer factories.

 


 
 

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