FOUR YEARS OF RANA PLAZA COLLAPSE Families lie broken, dreams shattered

The married life of Hridoy and his girlfriend Yasmin Akter Eti lasted for three days before it was brought to an abrupt end by Rana Plaza collapse in 2013. For them, the dream for a happy conjugal life never came true. 
Along with 2,000 workers of different garment factories, Mahmudul Hasan Hridoy, then only 25, escaped death but got his right leg paralysed for the rest of his life in the tragedy on April 24. 
At least 1,138 people were killed in the incident, considered by many as an incident of systematic killings, at Savar, on the outskirts of the capital.
One and a half years after the incident, Hridoy left hospital and learnt how to live without a limb, using crutch to do daily activities.
With time, he lost job at New Wave Style Ltd, one of the five garment factories housed at Rana Plaza, got some financial aid and started a drug store at Savar. But, in the meantime, he also got divorce notice from his wife in June 2016.
‘It was incredibly difficult for Eti to accept what happened to me. She was frustrated with our conjugal life and fearing more problems in the future, she decided to divorce me’, Hridoy recounts.
‘Eti did do not want to spend the rest of her life with a lame man, though I was waiting to be the father of my first kid,’ says Hridoy, hailing from Manikganj, while speaking to New Age at his Savar house.
‘Dealing with the divorce was no less difficult than losing my limbs,’ said a dejected Hridoy. He says his family wants him to marry again, but he is worried about what is in store for him. 
This story holds for so many other families the Rana Plaza tragedy shattered, especially those of women workers who sustained injuries in the incident.
According to sources in non-government organisations and Savar Rana Plaza Victims Survivors Association of Bangladesh, at least 11 families were torn apart by the Rana Plaza collapse. Among them, nine women either faced separation or divorce.
On condition of anonymity, two women Rana Plaza injured victims said that their husbands married again and they had no connection with their husbands who did not divorce them either.
‘Afraid of losing my identity, I requested my husband not to divorce me,’ said the 23-year-old woman who also has a baby boy.
She says she has been living in village with her son while her husband married again and is living in the capital.
‘Who will marry me; I cannot walk; I have no earning,’ said the other 32-year-old victim, who still lives in the same house with her husband and his second wife.
Most of the victims believe that if the government would take proper initiative to rehabilitate them, their lives would have been better.
The victims are worried about their future life as they have no financial and social safety, passing single life under permanent financial constraints.
They say that initially they could not guess that their husbands would divorce them, but as they did not get aid money, they were divorced.
A number of the victims have alleged that their family crisis began following the distribution and use of the aid money they were given from different organisations and individuals.
The victims demand their rehabilitation and seek exemplary punishment of the accused. 

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