PHOTOS: Bangladesh marks one year since the Rana Plaza factory disaster
April 24, 2014
In this Monday, April 21, 2014 photo, Bangladeshi Adhir Chondra Dash holds a portrait where he is seen with his wife Titon Bala Dash, killed in the Rana Plaza building collapse, in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. At least 1,135 people were killed when the illegally constructed, 8-story building collapsed April 24, 2013, in a heap along with thousands of workers in the five garment factories in the building. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad) ( Bangladesh Building Collapse )
In this Monday, April 21, 2014 photo, Bangladeshi garment worker Aroti, 17, who worked on the 5th floor of the Rana Plaza garment factory that collapsed, stands with the help of an artificial leg at her home in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. At least 1,135 people were killed when the illegally constructed, 8-story building collapsed April 24, 2013, in a heap along with thousands of workers in the five garment factories in the building. Aroti lost a leg in the accident. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad) ( Bangladesh Building Collapse )
In this Tuesday, April 22, 2014 photo, Reshma Begum, who survived for 17 days in the rubble of a collapsed Rana Plaza garment factory, pauses as she interacts with the media at her sister's home in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. When the building began crumble around her, Begum said she raced down a stairwell into the basement, where she became trapped near a wide pocket that allowed her to survive. Although her story has a happy ending, she now works in an international hotel in Dhaka's upscale Gulshan area, Begum is still haunted by the disaster. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad) ( Bangladesh Building Collapse )
In this Monday, April 21, 2014 photo, Bangladeshi garment worker Mina, who worked on the 4th floor of Rana Plaza garment factory that collapsed exactly a year ago, works at a factory meant to rehabilitate survivors of the accident, the worst in the history of the garment industry, in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. At least 1,135 people were killed when the illegally constructed, 8-story building collapsed April 24, 2013, in a heap along with thousands of workers in the five garment factories in the building. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad) ( Bangladesh Building Collapse )
In this Monday, April 21, 2014 photo, Bangladeshi garment worker Rehana, who worked on the 4th floor of the Rana Plaza garment factory that collapsed, sits with her artificial legs standing beside her bed at a hospital in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. At least 1,135 people were killed when the illegally constructed, 8-story building collapsed April 24, 2013, in a heap along with thousands of workers in the five garment factories in the building. Rehana lost her legs in the accident. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad) ( Bangladesh Building Collapse )
In this Monday, April 21, 2014 photo, Bangladeshi garment worker Asma, who worked on the 4th floor of Rana Plaza garment factory that collapsed exactly a year ago, works at a factory meant to rehabilitate survivors of the accident, the worst in the history of the garment industry, in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. At least 1,135 people were killed when the illegally constructed, 8-story building collapsed April 24, 2013, in a heap along with thousands of workers in the five garment factories in the building. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad) ( Bangladesh Building Collapse )
Bangladeshi banker Zaed bin Hassan poses in Dhaka on April 22, 2014. As Bangladesh marks one year since the Rana Plaza factory disaster, Zaed bin Hassan feels grief and anger at how he saved his employees from harm while others sent theirs to their deaths. The bank manager ran a busy branch located inside the factory building complex, where several thousand workers spent long hours stitching clothes for Western retailers for low wages on the floors above. (MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images) ( 529203846 )
In this photograph taken on May 10, 2013, Bangladeshi rescuers retrieve garment worker Reshma from the rubble of a collapsed building in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka seventeen days after the eight-storey building collapsed. Reshma Akhter, 19, was a rare bright spot in the Rana Plaza catastrophe on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on April 24, 2013, that left 1,138 dead and more than 2,000 injured. She was the "miracle" seamstress, plucked from the rubble of the world's worst garment factory disaster 17 days after her factory collapsed. One year on, she has married and found a new job. (AFP/Getty Images) ( 529197169 )
In this Tuesday, April 22, 2014 photo, Reshma Begum, center, who survived for 17 days in the rubble of a collapsed Rana Plaza garment factory, talks to relatives at her sister's home in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. When the building began crumble around her, Begum said she raced down a stairwell into the basement, where she became trapped near a wide pocket that allowed her to survive. Although her story has a happy ending, she now works in an international hotel in Dhaka's upscale Gulshan area, Begum is still haunted by the disaster. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad) ( Bangladesh Building Collapse )
A Bangladeshi mourner and relative of a victim of the Rana Plaza building collapse holds up a photograph as she takes part in a protest marking the first anniversary of the disaster at the site where the building once stood in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka on April 24, 2014. The Rana Plaza building collapsed on April 24, 2013, killing 1138 workers in the world's worst garment factory disaster. Western fashion brands faced pressure to increase help for victims as mass protests marked the anniversary. Thousands of people, some wearing funeral shrouds, staged demonstrations at the site of the now-infamous Rana Plaza factory complex. (MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images) ( 529200818 )
A Bangladeshi mourner and relative of a victim of the Rana Plaza building collapse reacts as she takes part in a protest marking the first anniversary of the disaster at the site where the building once stood in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka on April 24, 2014. The Rana Plaza building collapsed on April 24, 2013, killing 1138 workers in the world's worst garment factory disaster. Western fashion brands faced pressure to increase help for victims as mass protests marked the anniversary. Thousands of people, some wearing funeral shrouds, staged demonstrations at the site of the now-infamous Rana Plaza factory complex. (MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images) ( 529200811 )
Bangladeshi relatives of missing garment workers take part in a protest marking the first anniversary of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Dhaka on April 24, 2014. The Rana Plaza building collapsed on April 24, 2013, killing 1138 workers in the world's worst garment factory disaster. Western fashion brands faced pressure to increase help for victims as mass protests marked the anniversary. Thousands of people, some wearing funeral shrouds, staged demonstrations at the site of the now-infamous Rana Plaza factory complex. (MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images) ( 529201081 )
Bangladeshi activists and relatives of the victims of the Rana Plaza building collapse wear funeral shrouds as they lay a wreath of flowers at an event marking the first anniversary of the disaster at the site where the building once stood in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka on April 24, 2014. The Rana Plaza building collapsed on April 24, 2013, killing 1138 workers in the world's worst garment factory disaster. Western fashion brands faced pressure to increase help for victims as mass protests marked the anniversary. Thousands of people, some wearing funeral shrouds, staged demonstrations at the site of the now-infamous Rana Plaza factory complex. (MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images) ( 529201089 )
A poster tied to a fence at the scene of the Bangladesh Rana Plaza building collapse and reading, "We want a safe work place, not a death trap' is seen on the first anniversary of the disaster on the outskirts of Dhaka on April 24, 2014. The Rana Plaza building collapsed on April 24, 2013, killing 1138 workers in the world's worst garment factory disaster. Western fashion brands faced pressure to increase help for victims as mass protests marked the anniversary. Thousands of people, some wearing funeral shrouds, staged demonstrations at the site of the now-infamous Rana Plaza factory complex. (MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images) ( 529201131 )
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