GlesgaKiss

382 Nepalese migrant workers in two years, and it's predicted as many as 4000 could die by the end of the project in 2022.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...kers-died-2013

Human life is not worth much in those countries, we know that, but Qatar should never have been eligible to host the World Cup for this reason. Now all these people will die just so we can sit and watch some football. Sick or what?

Turbohot

Yes. Sick indeed.

f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

Absolutely, just another reason to ignore this pathetic moronic sport!

davegtt

Yeh cause its the Sport thats the problem. These migrant workers are working and dying on other construction sites throughout the Middle East regardless of what the structure will be used for. Separate issue.

f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

Well that bastion of honesty and integrity that is FIFA gave the world cup to Qatar so I think the connection is fairly obvious, even to you!

CrisPDuk

The irony

Funkii Munkii

Never misses an opportunity does he, f*ck the Qatari's their appalling mistreatment of migrant workers (slaves) and the dead and their families I'll have another dig at the football fan

The Guardian have been on this story for a long time to their credit

Chip

I think he takes the Guardian along with the Morning Star as well

Mouser

Take care with inflammatory comments like this or that snivelling little **** will have her "ladies" on reprimanding you for bullying.

f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

No, not just the fans, the whole sport!

tubbytommy

iTrader: (20)

fifa is to blame here, i like football but they are so corrupt thats the only reason the world cup is in a country that has no stadiums and is too bloody hot to even play the game.

f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

Yep, that's kind of what I meant in my second post!

tubbytommy

iTrader: (20)

i know, but all sport is corrupt when it gets as big as football of f1. it becomes about money.

fifa is no better than bernie, i like both sports though

f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

Are you seriously saying Bernie is corrupt?

tubbytommy

iTrader: (20)

no more so than fifa

The Trooper 1815

iTrader: (31)

HMG are making roughly the same number of Nepalese Gurkhas redundant. Cost neutral.

hodgy0_2

Yes, the treatment of foreign, predominantly Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Indian workers in the construction of these middle eastern "paradises" has been a scandal for many years

Often they are little more than slaves, with confiscated passports and no means to exit the countries they work in, legally tied to the employer

The World Cup situation was inevitable - when you have corruption on corruption it is never going to end well for people at the bottom of the pile

dpb

Arabs seem to have been the oldest know slave drivers. ??

..and then there's fifa,

Maz

iTrader: (34)

There are few people more materialistic and morally corrupt than the ruling classes of the Gulf states.

Truss

iTrader: (2)

Nail on head.
Fifa have blood on their hands too, giving a world cup to a state that has no real interest (other than money) in football.

Dingdongler

So you've noticed that too?

f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

Yep you've both noticed something that doesn't happen... well done you two!

You know, if you were as good a detective as you are a doctor...... actually you probably are

Dingdongler

Yup.

Dubai was built by this virtual slave labour. Thousands of people from the Indian subcontinent died in the construction boom of Dubai.

They are an overtly racist culture. For the same job they will pay differently depending on your country of origin, and not suprisingly Emiratis(? Sp) will get the most.

Makes you realise just how lucky we are to live in a society like ours. (Despite some members constantly putting this country down as a basket case)

Mouser

Only now and nearly every thread he "graces"!

......oh yes it does.....

Remove your cranium from your splenic flexure and you too will notice things. To be fair I think your head has been up there too long and there is no hope for you.

Check this out BTW, from a hero of yours....http://www.fifa.com/newscentre/news/...398/index.html

f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

Only in your tiny obsessive little mind.

markjmd

iTrader: (11)

You can understand a few deaths in any civil engineering project of such large scale (close to a dozen during building of the Channel tunnel, for example), but figures like this are just plain shocking.

Maz

iTrader: (34)

It shows the complete disregard for human life in that part of the world. There is a lot of wealth in those countries but it is tempered by the proportional lack of morality and fairness. The sooner the oil wells run dry and the sooner those profiteering from oil are brought in to the real world the better.

Dingdongler

The lady doth protest too much methinks

Don't worry, nobody thinks any less of you because you need female body guards.

stevebt

iTrader: (8)

To be honest I doubt many people will really care about the death toll? Yes we can all get the do gooders saying this is disgraceful but they will just sip their wine in the pub and move on and it will be forgotten the next day.

I do think hosting the world cup in this country will mean a lot more people will be staying for years longer than they thought as I bet Quatar has a zero tolerance for bee! and I bet fighting will be sort of frowned on

hodgy0_2

As the old saying goes

There are no "golden" rules, he who has the gold makes the rules