Καλώς ήλθατε!

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Saturday, 1 June 2013

SAVAR


Do you know what happened in Savar?
Do you, my honorable ladies and gentlemen
know?

Does anybody know where Savar is 
in great America or Europe?
Innocent fresh blood is shed in Savar
Innocent blood of beautiful young girls
Thousands of young working girls and boys
with big puzzled eyes
had unfair horrible death
I can not focus my eyes on them!
I can not even look towards them!
They only had their poor life
their poor life is taken
'cause no one cared
no one still cares
how they lived
where they lived
if they lived
how they managed to live
in what conditions they were struggling to live
Yet they were working for us
my honorable ladies and gentlemen
in the nine-storey dilapidated building
which crushed them
under a whole lot of stones
They were weaving
luxurious fabrics to wrap our bodies
they put in danger their only possession
yes my honorable ladies and gentlemen
their only possession
their life
to ensure the pittance
that would preserve
their flesh alive and
exploitable by us

Yes, my honorable ladies and gentlemen
there were not cattle or sheep
stacked at that modern crematorium
and they were human hands asking for help
buried alive amid the ruins
Why? Why we humans
we reproduce Hell instead of Paradise?

http://archive.dhakatribune.com/labour/2013/apr/28/savar-rescue-live-updates