Telephone directory3/31/2023 Workers’ deaths in Qatar are on an industrial scale compared to every other major sporting tournament. And it didn’t have to be this way – if only the Qataris had honoured decent standards and the world had maintained pressure about workers’ rights.Īnd compare it to the number of deaths constructing other major sporting events: the Olympics in London 2012 there were zero fatalities, in Rio four years later there were eight deaths and two workers perished building last year’s Japanese Olympic infrastructure. Thousands of healthy young migrants have died from accidents, exhaustion or heart attacks to bring us a football tournament. According to campaigners more than 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since they were awarded the World Cup. Too many haven’t lived to see the tournament or grow old and tell their grandchildren about their place in building football history. Many of those workers won’t be returning home. Those I met lived packed into overheated and overcrowded lorry containers which boiled in temperatures regularly averaging over 100☌.īut there’s something more serious which we should never forget and probably never forgive Fifa and Qatar for. In the UK it wouldn’t be acceptable to treat a family pet or, I would go as far to say, even a farm animal, in the squalid way in which too many World Cup workers were treated. Mark Aitken, The Post’s political editor, was with me on one of the trips and shared my horror. So, I twice visited Qatar to meet with workers on the sites. I wanted to know more about what was going on there. The Sunday Post view: It is not Fifa’s, not Qatar’s. If Scotland had the same ratio of citizens to migrants, we would be home to 48 million migrant workers. So instead of relying on their own people, their economy is permanently sustained by immigrants who make up almost 90% of their population. Put that another way – there are more seats in the tournament stadiums than there are citizens of the country. It is a country almost seven times smaller than Scotland and, in a population of just under 3million, there are only 300,000 Qataris. The country just doesn’t have enough of its own citizens to build the hotels, new airport and seven stadiums that are needed. Loading Spinner An icon of a loading spinner. Success Tick Timeout An icon of a greyed out success tick. Information An icon of an information logo. Speech Bubble Icon A icon displaying a speech bubble WhatsApp An icon of the WhatsApp logo. Video Camera An icon of a video camera shape. Previous An icon of an arrow pointing to the left. Notice An explanation mark centred inside a circle. Next An icon of an arrow pointing to the right. Hamburger Menu Icon An icon used to represent a collapsed menu. Search Icon A magnifying glass icon that is used to represent the function of searching. Magnifying Glass An icon of a magnifying glass. Comments An icon of a speech bubble, denoting user comments. Close Icon An icon used to represent where to interact to collapse or dismiss a component Comment An icon of a speech bubble. Breaking An icon of an exclamation mark on a circular background. Pause Icon A two-lined pause icon for stopping interactions. Is Not Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes with a diagonal line through it. Is Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes. Telephone An icon of a traditional telephone receiver. Profile An icon that resembles human head and shoulders. Linked In An icon of the Linked In "in" mark. Facebook An icon of the Facebook "f" mark. Caret An icon of a block arrow pointing to the right. Cancel An icon of a circle with a diagonal line across.
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