Indian plantation workers get pissed at their boss, burn his house down with him inside - Polidicks

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-20849295[/url] [quote=BBC News][B]Hundreds of tea plantation workers have set alight their boss's bungalow in north-east India, burning to death the manager and his wife, officials say.[/B] Angry workers surrounded the couple's bungalow at Kunapathar in Assam state late on Wednesday, following a two-week long dispute with the management. Police said the incident happened after the management asked some workers to leave their accommodation. Half of India's tea output comes from some 800 tea estates in Assam. Local official SS Meenakshi Sundaram said some 700 tea garden workers surrounded the manager's bungalow on Wednesday evening and set it on fire. Two vehicles belonging to the manager were also torched. The charred bodies of Mridul Kumar Bhattacharyya and his wife, Rita, were later recovered from the debris, Mr Sundaram said. Police have detained three workers in connection with the incident. Officials said Mr Bhattacharyya and his workers had been locked in a dispute for the past two weeks. They said Mr Bhattacharyya had also faced protests at another tea estate that he owned two years ago. In that dispute, angry workers set fire to his tea factory near the state capital, Guwahati, after he had allegedly fired on a crowd that had gathered near his house to protest against a reported attack on a local woman. Several incidents of attacks on tea executives by angry workers have been reported from Assam in recent years.[/quote]

the glorious people's revolution has begun! collectivization hoooo!

I'm beginning to see why my boss moved his family out of India a decade ago.

I don't care what the manager did, nothing could've warranted this atrocity.

And someone explain to me what this has to do with the Nintendo Wii?

[QUOTE=Moustacheman;38988489]And someone explain to me what this has to do with the Nintendo Wii?[/QUOTE] obviously this is where nintendo builds its wii u's and is forcing THE INDIAN CHILDREN to make them for no profit.

Even if the boss was an absolute dick, I feel bad for him and a hundred times worse for his wife.

I can't even begin to imagine how terrifying that would be.

[QUOTE=Tommeh!;38988483]I don't care what the manager did, nothing could've warranted this atrocity.[/QUOTE] [quote]In that dispute, angry workers set fire to his tea factory near the state capital, Guwahati, after he had allegedly fired on a crowd that had gathered near his house to protest against a reported attack on a local woman.[/quote] According to the article he attacked a woman and then fired on his workers when they protested in the past, so yeah, I can kind of see their train of thought.

why are people rating winner? it doesn't matter [I]what[/I] he did, the fact that he was burned to death along with his wife in his own home is completely uncalled for, and only shows that the works are completely inhumane.

See this is a horrible thing, we can all relate when we have been so mad at someone that we say we will bring them harm. But the difference is actually doing it. I feel sorry for everyone involved on this.

I guess they showed him who's the one firing people.

[QUOTE=Bentham;38988689]I can't even begin to imagine how terrifying that would be.[/QUOTE] What, being burned to death? Pretty fucking terrible alright. Unless of course the carbon monoxide you breathed into your bloodstream makes you pass out first.

700 workers surrounded their home but only 3 got arrested? Some of the other workers must owe them money. When the investigators start asking questions, those are the ones who get thrown under the bus first.

The workers are right. The boss is a real prick. A real [I]dead[/I] prick.

I'm uh Not sure if that really balances out the karmic scales