Dying for fashion - 101 East - Al Jazeera English

Dying for fashion - 101 East - Al Jazeera English:

Cambodia's largest export industry is facing its biggest crisis, with garment workers and security forces engaged in a series of ongoing clashes. One recent protest left five people dead and scores injured.

The violence comes after weeks of political and labour unrest crippled Cambodia's garment industry.

While the international spotlight has focused on the garment factories of Bangladesh, Cambodia's garment workers have been staging their own revolution. Hundreds of industrial strikes have left the industry in turmoil and presented Prime Minister Hun Sen with the toughest political challenge in his nearly three-decade rule.