A new documentary, Kingdom Uncovered: Inside Saudi Arabia, has revealed the total amount of worker deaths related to Mohammed bin Salman’s Saudi Vision 2030, a multitrillion dollar program which includes NEOM and the Line.
According to the exposé by ITV, more than 21,000 Indian, Bangladeshi, and Nepalese workers have died in Saudi Arabia since 2017 working on various aspects of Saudi Vision 2030. And according to The Hindustan Times, reports show that more than 100,000 people have “disappeared”during NEOM’s construction.
Workers also say that, under current working conditions, they are “trapped slaves” and “beggars.” There’s also been reports of wage theft, illegal working hours, and human rights abuses. More than 20,000 Indigenous people were also forcefully removed from the region to make way for NEOM.
And the US is completely ok with this. smh
This is actually happening in a completely different sovereign nation called Saudi Arabia.
Yes, which has multi-billion dollar deals with US defense contractors. This should not be ok. But the US loves money more than humanity.
Oh the old “US should be world police” argument.
Where’s that coming from? I’m just saying the US shouldn’t do business with a country that enslaves, tortures and murders people on the regular.
There’s idealistic foreign policy, and there’s pragmatic foreign policy
I mean China is a huge economy, that’s kind of asking a lot.
i agree but it would be tough for the US to not do business inside their own country.
Touche
It seems pretty obvious to me that they’re suggesting BDS and not a military invasion.
Not US citizens, I’m way more upset that India and Sri Lanka are OK with this.
Obviously Pakistan is fine, surprised they didn’t offer the laborers as a package deal, or with their organs a la carte.
He who controls the oil, controls [a huge portion of] the world['s economies]. SMH, too.
Yep, exactly