What I Learned Today

            I did all of my research today on the collapse of the eight story Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013.  It is said to be one of the worst collapses by accident of all time.  Over eleven hundred people were killed during the collapse and over a thousand others were injured.  The eight story building was a garment factory on the top floors and a bank/stores on the bottom levels.  The bottom floors had been closed down due to all the cracks in the building.  But the top garment workers did not stop.  Most of the workers were women.
            The day before the disaster a group of inspectors came to check out all of the cracks in the building.  They said it was a bad idea to use the building anymore but that did not stop the leaders of the factory to make their workers keep working.  Ironically when the building collapsed, the people who made the employees come to work that day were not in the building when it collapsed.  Some headlines read "The Deadly Cost of Fashion"-The New York Times and "Fashion Victims"-Journeyman Pictures.  Even though the building was in terrible shape, the multibillion dollar operation could not be stopped.  After the collapse, many people rioted trying to get the leaders of the Rana Plaza to be executed for killing 1,129 people.

Shortly after the collapse 

Rioting against the leaders of the Rana Plaza organization