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.
Saudi Arabia and human rights abuse?? Say it ain’t so!
Better fill up my tank
21,000+ dead and 100,000+ missing sounds like a war is happening in Saudi Arabia. Those are shocking numbers.
Lemme guess: most of them are not Saudi nationals?
Closer to none than some, I would assume.
And the US is completely ok with this. smh
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.
