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Parties Involved and Parties Affected in the conflict : Parties those are involved and affected on the conflict Around 10,000 workers in Fatullah, south of the capital Dhaka, pelted police with rocks as they demanded a minimum monthly wage of 5,000 taka (73 dollars), rejecting a 3,000 taka deal offered by the government last week. The government said last week that the minimum monthly wage for garment workers would rise to 3,000 taka from 1,662 taka, but the new wage will not be implemented until November. Some major unions have accepted the 80-percent hike, but a string of smaller unions have rejected the deal, and violence erupted in Dhaka on Friday with workers blocking roads, vandalising factories and shops and looting goods. 10.Media Coverage of the issue : Media coverage the whole issue. Some parties give their comment of this situation,like They attacked factories, set up barricades in the roadwe had to use tear gas and batons to disperse the workers, district police chief Biswas Afzal Hossain told AFP. "'More than 50,000 workers have joined the protests. They have become violent and hurled stones and rocks at our officers. We fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the protesters,' Dhaka district police chief Iqbal Bahar said. Police officer Rehana Begum said the body of another labourer was recovered from the area Sunday, taking the death toll to two. "Scores of officers and workers were also injured in the clashes, she added.

11.Socio economic impact and implication of the conflict : Some socio economic impact and implication of conflict also occur .Those are given bellow : Bangladeshs garment industry is the countrys biggest employer after agriculture. According to the International Trade Union Confederation, Bangladeshs 3.5

million garment workers, most of them women, are the worlds most poorly paid workers. Many work 12 to 14 hour shifts, six days a week, often in hazardous conditions. The 5,000 taka they are demanding is less than half the monthly wage of workers in China, the worlds largest producer of garments. In recent years, Bangladesh has emerged as an attractive manufacturing centre for top multinational clothing retailers such as Tesco, Gap, H&M, Walmart and Marks & Spencer because of its low-cost labour, believed to be the worlds cheapest, against more expensive manufacturing centres such as China and India. "Two people have died and scores have been injured in violent clashes as protests entered a second day and spread to scores of factories at the Ashulia industrial zone 30 kilometres (19 miles) outside Dhaka, police officials said.

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