{"id":259933,"date":"2022-11-22T10:32:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T10:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamslivenews.com\/?p=259933"},"modified":"2022-11-22T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T11:00:44","slug":"why-boycott-qatar-is-trending-on-twitter-and-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamslive.com\/news\/2022\/11\/why-boycott-qatar-is-trending-on-twitter-and-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Why boycott Qatar is trending on Twitter and Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Boycott Qatar is trending on Twitter and Facebook and here is why, one of the main reasons is 6,500 migrants died in Qatar making the stadium<\/h2>\n
\u00a0A report conducted by The Guardian has found that thousands of migrant laborers have died in Qatar over the past decade. Since the country was unexpectedly awarded the hosting rights for the FIFA World Cup in December 2010, at least 6,500 migrants from five countries in southern Asia have died.<\/div>\n
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Some of the reasons for calling the boycott of FIFA are:<\/h3>\n
1) Human rights abuses that took over 6,500 lives and thousands of migrants from India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.\u00a0 The migrants were called to work under terrible conditions like 18-hour shifts, wage withholding, and no days off.\u00a0 Their passports and visas were taken by their employees and one would call this modern-day slavery.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2) Scandal and corruption reeking: 22 voting members of Fifa\u2019s executive committee at the time, 16 of whom have been implicated in or investigated over some form of alleged corruption or bad practice.\u00a0 Rumors go that the FIFA board members were bribed millions of dollars to hold the FIFA World Cup in Qatar and this news alone set a fire raging around the world.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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3)\u00a0 Doha had promised \u201cthe first carbon-neutral World Cup in history\u201d with its \u201ccompact\u201d design meaning less carbon-emitting travel. But concerns have been voiced over the use of air conditioning in the stadiums and hundreds of thousands of liters of desalinated water needed to keep the pitches lush and green.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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4) On-field punishment with rainbow armbands being removed before the match. Qatar inflicted threats of on-field punishment for players pushing World Cup teams to back down Monday and quit their plan for their captains to wear protesting armbands against Qatar to host FIFA due to their track record of human rights abuses.<\/div>\n
5) Sale of alcohol stopped at the game and it seemed strange to the culture of football where a beer in hand while watching the game is in vogue.<\/div>\n
6) Controversial Islamic preacher, Zakir Naik<\/a> would be sermonizing in the backdrop of the game.\u00a0 Zakir Naik had praised the suicide Easter bombings in Sri Lanka in a church that took over 200 lives and hotels across the nation.<\/div>\n
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The Guardian’s analysis recorded deaths among workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka with 12 people losing their lives in Qatar each week on average since 2010. The true death toll is likely to be extremely higher given that the research does not include deaths from other countries known to send significant quantities of workers to Qatar such as the Philippines and Kenya.<\/p>\n

Qatar has been bedeviled by allegations of human rights abuses and labor violations for years with international organizations consistently reporting that migrant laborers have been subject to serious exploitation and abuse. The U.S. State Department has said that expatriate workers face conditions indicative of involuntary servitude with some labor violations taking the form of beatings, withholding of payment, sexual assault, and restrictions on freedom of movement.\u00a0 Their passports and visas are taken away from them and they are made to work like slaves.<\/p>\n

In order to prepare for the world’s premier soccer tournament, Qatar has embarked on a host of major construction projects including seven stadiums, an airport, and major additions to public transport, among others.<\/p>\n

The Guardian’s<\/a> findings were compiled from government sources and they show that 2,711 workers from India died between 2011 and 2020, along with 1,641 expatriates from Nepal and 1,018 from Bangladesh. Pakistan’s embassy in Qatar also reported 824 deaths among Pakistani workers over the last decade.<\/p>\n

Even though Qatar’s government does not dispute the figures, it states that the number of deaths is proportional to the size of the migrant workforce. The rate of Covid-19 is also low in Qatar and it is thought that the pandemic has not had a considerable impact on the number of deaths with around 250 people dying from the disease.<\/p>\n

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Under distressing settings, the FIFA World Cup 2022, is not doing well in Qatar and there is steaming rage globally at the choice of venue due to a restrictive atmosphere, the way the FIFA venue was allegedly bought, along with the human rights abuses in building the stadium among other endless other complaints pouring in at this time.<\/div>\n
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