The unnamed
woman was standing with 3,000 co-workers who'd blocked the road outside
their factory when military police allegedly pushed her to the ground
and Tasered her. Employees seek $14 a month to help pay for
transportation, rent and health costs.
By Lee Moran /
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, May 28, 2013,
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Police allegedly used a cattle prod on a female worker, causing her to miscarry.
A pregnant Cambodian worker who makes clothes for Nike lost her baby
after cops stunned her with a cattle prod during a protest against low
pay.
Military police allegedly pushed the unnamed woman to the ground and
Tasered her — as she stood with 3,000 co-workers who'd blocked the road
outside their factory.
At least 23 other women were also injured in the demonstration.
"There was a pregnant woman among them. She lost blood, and then she
lost the baby," said Sun Vanny, president of the Free Trade Union (FTU)
at Sabrina.
Workers took to the streets Monday outside the Sabrina (Cambodia)
Garment Manufacturing factory in Kampong Speu province, west of the
capital, Phnom Penh, the Cambodia Daily reports.
They want the firm, which makes clothing for U.S. sportswear company
Nike, to give them $14 a month to help pay for transportation, rent and
health costs on top of their $74 wage.
The company's 5,000 workers have staged regular strikes and protests since May 21, reports Reuters.
Leng Pros, a 28-year-old male worker hospitalized after the clashes,
said from his hospital bed: "Police used an electric baton to hit me on
the head.
"If other workers hadn't pulled me away, I would be dead. I didn't know what happened next. I fell to the ground."
Police and military police officials have declined to comment on the incident, saying they were still collecting reports.
Nike has so far not issued any statement.
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