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lation of the hari krishna holy text which was suspected to be a street. thanks are far to meets the indian workers fighting danger in their own workplace. so. why is the pressure so low. to. go in there and get rid of the oil.
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q. my name is mohammed of repeat i'm forty seven years old and i dismantle old ships i've spent thirty two years of my life here. for them but to. get down from there. one
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would do most workers come from the north the poorest part of bangladesh up to that . they got that they all yearn to come here that they consider this place to be like somewhere abroad to be given that. you understand chittagong is like a foreign country to these people. they come here to work a ship breaking yards to make money. the first impression of the workers here is that they are innocent. gets caught a ruffian confirmed that impression. and there was another one twenty one year old. he is quiet and has an innocent smile. i've been working here for nine i know ten years i was twelve when i first came here. nobody wanted to hire me them. i brought my younger brother too.
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he had just finished fifth grade. now actually fourth grade he could barely write his name. this twenty thousand ton cargo ship arrived here two months ago. today's task is dismounting the engine without damaging it. the four point seven ton engine of this ship will be sold for ten thousand dollars . we're always in danger eight hours' work means eight hours of danger. only recently we started wearing helmets used to wear just
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caps. a small amount falling from above could kill us. fatal accidents can happen at any time because we work with heavy materials.
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a ship that just finished an exhausting last trip arrives in chittagong. once it arrives the distant any of the ship is set. more than half of the world's retired vessels dismantled. p.h.p. is the oldest among the more than thirty ship breaking yards and should have gone. an authorized entry is strictly prohibited.
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here. today an old ship is arriving here to be dismantled flagpoles they used to indicate a more in place for the vessel. i could live off of never have loved all of that little. one of. the loom of my list of those you know but. i'm not a telemarketer. sebald them a little money because when
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a ship arrives we have more work today better and make more money. it's hard work but we are happy because we should feed ourselves. all of the right i'm not saying. that. the tanker had been crossing the oceans for the past thirty two years now it will have its funeral. with. all the money on. this ship should be pulled as close as possible to the shore tonight during high tide otherwise the company will lose lots of money.
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but i am. happy to go all the time for. not having.
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for the past two months a cargo ship was being dismantled and an oil tanker arrived last night both will be broken down bit by bit until nothing is left. because the strain is nothing get back to work you know.
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it's the job of the wide group the unskilled laborers to pull the four ton metal chain they have from the north the poor part of banga day. they are not so fast. so. let's. cut molly let. her.
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so. our lives are like this a build
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a oil tanker here we live and die. if you get it this is all we have. this is a ship graveyard but it could also be a grave for living humans. in this area approximately twenty ship breakers die every year. with.
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live live. live get out of the way live . that. get out of there. accidents always occur in a flash it. here is a good example of what can go wrong suddenly.
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i'm. not going to wait a minute. i'm. going to. alice saved you i want you near scared me to death. but. i didn't really saved you i know you could have died if you were crushed down there. but if you are a young. boy you're going to go to hell you've got to be strong your hardest still pounding. a little bit who do want to. come up with. her going to.
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get in the morning and nobody can escape from accidents while working here. you know but i'm not scared i can die today tomorrow or the day after. often fate comes with an accident
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a random event shaped the destinies of both. i'll tell you i'll tell you a story. there's a huge cycle in the sixty's one morning after the cycle. was stranded on the shore. it was washed down there on a thousands of people came to take a look at it and they wondered could there be a ghost or devil in there. they decided to dismantle and recycle it. they started to strip the ship with tools this is how we started breaking ships in bangladesh. now about twenty thousand people work at over twenty sites. the ships that came here came to many people from starving. ships. that's why i love the sea.
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but so many people have died. there. that. the furniture please come in. and eat right. two weeks later auction is rushing to p.h.p. four to five auction is bid on each item everything from a generator to dishes. p.h.p. made twenty four thousand dollars today.
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nothing is wasted here. without these workers hundreds of huge old vessels would have sunk into the ocean like the titanic. thanks. she breaking of hundreds of recycle shops that often stretch for over two kilometers on both sides of the road it is in a way a huge recycling factory. outlet
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place. please. please. please. feel. a little up properly you don't.
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place a migrant on our bodies and it will stay there do you know why. there are iron flakes in our bodies we work with iron every day we are iron eaters. our bodies have become pieces of iron themselves. in order to survive in such a harsh environment one must be strong. here the crows build nests out of fragments of on while. the workers here call those tough birds real hard cock in english on crows. this boy's eyes are full of those little boys work here too and i am sure
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they work to feed their hungry stomachs. and this is. this is scheifele. this is the youngest we've called him the smallest this is pothole this is beyond dolly everyone works here for their hungry stomachs. i mean the children are starving and crying compared to do with that children are born with nothing to eat . what kind of parent really do nothing so many crazy things happen almost some hiring themselves or others leave home poverty drives them into despair it's all because of famine the. older you. were twelve. i wolde i'm twelve. i must work no matter how difficult it is you know why when there is nothing to eat
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at home. i'm going to the yeah yeah why are you taking this this is mine. i don't know how. you can go and get one. that outlet where you're taking mine about back now. what is the most important thing for human life. therefore the law that bans child labor doesn't make sense here. and the fact that asbestosis fatal for humans is not even an issue.
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who lets these boys work here they need to eat they're not old enough to work don't you see them working boys are not allowed to work. when there's nothing to eat a tiger will eat grass. you think they like to work they come here because they have nothing to eat a. criminal stopped working i told you clearly i don't want to get into trouble with the boss if you keep doing it you'll be fired first and never work here again . listen they are per boys at the make some money to buy a ticket to go home. send them home now you will have to leave otherwise. and what am i supposed to do.
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the youngest boy. came to chittagong three months ago following is uncle. a. most it's a fourteen year old boy came with a chromo. just a fifteen year old has been here for over a year. patrick. and. if we get angry with the cheese that could get infected.
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the way we get. sometimes you need to strip both the filth me and the guy i did yesterday. look it's clean now. i looks cool. did you pay for your shirt. the dollar twenty. and he wants a dollar twenty one wanted i don't want to talk about it i'm hungry why i said you look cool. on their young boys let's go eat. and he did what was it was the menu for the night. cauliflower potato and eggs.
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and when he bets why it costs eighty cents. when you eat you know we eat a lot. of. the economy. the unlimited it's just simply it's. just some it's six. six six six thanks. six
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day one of the north korean leader's funeral and spitz hopes of change under his successor are overshadowed by concerns that foreign nations was actually want to keep the status quo as we reported. post mubarak egypt seeks to shape its international ties and i would meet all of them certainly at home while it's i was to leave this trial finally. by the russian court decides against about a translation of a how to krishna holy text which was suspect to begin stream. embeddedness attack it.

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