Faceless crowd

24th April, 2013

Rana Plaza, an Eight-story commercial building collapsed in Savar, Bangladesh. It is one of the deadliest garment-factory accident in the history, killing 1,134 people and around 2,500 injured. The victims were the workers in ready made garment factories. The rescue mission continued until 13th of May, 2013. People were trapped inside the rubble for several days. The last surviver, was rescued after 17 days. Many had their limbs amputated to be rescued; young girls, women, men were asking themselves to cut off their hands or legs because it was stuck under dead bodies and rubbles that made it impossible for them to get out and survive. They had to choose either to live without it or die.

This building contained clothing factories, shops, banks and apartments. When the crack in the building was discovered the day before the accident, all were closed and evacuated, except the garment workers were told to come back to work. There was a pressure on them to complete and deliver orders on time. The government has blamed the owners and builders of the eight-story complex for using shoddy construction materials. Also for ignoring the alert. Within few hours the workers started to work, the machines started to vibrate the building and the building collapsed. 

These workers, the Faceless crowd, worked until this tragic moment just to provide us clothes. If you listen carefully they are still working and the machines are still going on and on….