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.
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.
It seems pretty obvious to me that they’re suggesting BDS and not a military invasion.
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.
I mean China is a huge economy, that’s kind of asking a lot.
There’s idealistic foreign policy, and there’s pragmatic foreign policy