'The 2022 World Cup is diabolical, unconscionable, truly evil.'
, were bound to essentially zero labor laws and no oversight. As a result, the laborers in Qatar are something closer to slaves or indentured servants. They have almost no rights and little recourse when they’re mistreated. They’ve been commanded to work terrible hours, with breaks only enforced in the middle of the afternoon to prevent too much of the workforce from dying off due to the Middle East’s brutal heat. They sleep and eat in overcrowded worker colonies.
The exact body count of Qatar’s World Cup construction is hard to know. Qatar fudges the numbers by excluding heart attacks and other serious afflictions. In 2021,gave its best estimate of the carnage: 6,500 migrant deaths over 10 years, a number that the publication itself called a conservative undercount.
for saying that the World Cup would kill more people than 9/11. Eight years later, it looks like at least two 9/11s, if not more.“Ghal Singh Rai from Nepal paid nearly £1,000 in recruitment fees for his job as a cleaner in a camp for workers building the Education City World Cup stadium. Within a week of arriving, he killed himself.
Death isn’t the only negative outcome, either. Countless other migrants have been maimed by their work on rushing the stadiums up. Arevealed the treatment of one such migrant, Surendra Tamang, a man from Nepal. Tamang arrived in Qatar in 2015 with high hopes for his construction gig. By October 2021, he had extinguished his usefulness to Qatar and was sent back home.
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