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By Staff Writer
Zamel Azarbaijan, a worker who died of self-immolation as he was
protesting in front of Abadan’s municipality building, died Sunday, May
26, 2018 at the hospital.
His son-in-law says: he was under pressure from all sides; he had not been paid for five months and he was rarely coming home ….
Zamel Azarbaijan was a serviceman at the district three of the
Southwestern city of Abadan’s region municipalities, who had not been
paid for at least five months; on Monday, May 20. He burned himself at
work. One of his colleagues who tried to save him also got 35% burns and
hospitalized.
According to one of his colleagues, after this painful incident, the
employer paid all the demanded wages of the workers of Abadan
municipality at once. Although all claims are paid simultaneously, but
Zamel died in the hospital after several days; his deferred pays are
worthless now; "Zamel Azerbaijan" will no longer return.
After all, this immediate "payment" raises this question in mind that
if the employer had the "ability" to pay, why did not pay before coming
to last straw for the workers and before Zamel reaches the point that
sets himself on fire.
The story that his son-in-law recounts is the answer to many questions:
The story that his son-in-law recounts is the answer to many questions:
"Honestly, he was under pressure from all sides; he was lagging
behind on the bank installments on one side; on the other hand, he had
not received his wages for five months; He always said he had reached to
the bottom; He was taking different directions to come home; He was
saying: He did not want to be in sight with the shopkeepers; I owed to
all the shops from the butchers to the bakers and the supermarkets; The
fact of the matter is that my father-in-law was under pressure from all
sides; I'm going to ask mercy for him where he is now; he was not seen
by his lenders for six months; I am telling them; He could not bear it
anymore; He is gone now ... “
Zamel's son-in-law says: "If I were him, I would have done something
alike; the problems were not one or two, they were too many; I did not
even know about many of his problems; this man who was already a
grandfather and had worked all his life did not even have a hut of his
own. Ten days ago his landlord asked for the rent, threatening: "If you
do not pay your rent, I will return and place your belongings on the
curb.”
He did have a young unemployed son at home as well, which is not a
small chastisement. Life was very difficult for him, he was barely seen
at home; he would come home four in the morning to sleep until eleven in
the morning; then, he would be gone; he said that I could not get home
until I get my “salary".
Zamel has three children; two girls and one son; three grandchildren;
his son has high school diploma; done his military services, but is
also unemployed; he has not been able to find work. On the day of the
incident, Zamel has called his wife asking “heat up the food that I eat
and go to work. His wife had told him, there is no money at home to get a
gas bottle; we do not have gas; perhaps this was the last dialogue of
this man with his wife and children....
Why workers are in such a situation; this is a question that has long
been unanswered; municipal service workers are hard workers, which
requires heavy labor. The work is not easy. With all these hardships,
there are fewer days that man would not see a report in the media about
delay of several months in wages of these workers.
Hossein Habibi (secretary of the coordinating council of the Islamic
Labor Councils of the country) says that the middle-aged worker in
Abadan, who hasn’t been paid for five months, burns himself is not
something strange and abnormal, because he believes that the individual
has descended to a place that will become desperate. When your tolerance
boundaries reject and leave no room for you, suicide is not strange.
He says: five months of no wage, makes one ashamed within the family
and community; when one has not been paid for five months, the landlord
will not let you have accommodation; you will be indebted to all
relatives and acquaintances, which means getting to the bottom. All this
is the result of not respecting the "labor rights" which, with great
regret, should be said that this non-compliance has become a common
practice these days.
In his opinion, the incident could be an alarm: I hope this self-immolation will be considered a serious alarm.
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