At least 274 Kenyan workers, mostly women, have died in Saudi Arabia in the past five years — an extraordinary figure for a young work force doing jobs that, in most countries, are considered extremely safe. At least 55 Kenyan workers died last year, twice as many as the previous year.
Absolutely heartbreaking article.
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Autopsy reports are vague and contradictory. They describe women with evidence of trauma, including burns and electric shocks, all labeled natural deaths. One woman’s cause of death was simply “brain dead.”
Checked the article because I was wondering what the actual cause of death was and it turns out they just wave everything through as natural causes. They’re being straight up murdered. Lovely.
When i read “maid” and “saudi arabia” this was basically expected. I dont even wanna know the rape rate.
Wealthy Saudi Arabians torturing and killing slaves to a degree that it can be proven externally with just death report numbers.
What a wonderful country
I spent two years in Saudi Arabia in the early 2000s and was hearing stories like this even back then as a kid. I remember some kids even put on a skit involving maid abuse for some kind of social justice style project (I don’t remember the specifics) so it was a well known enough issue even then. Terrifying stuff and disgusting that they still hey away with it.
Keep this in mind in face of the PR onslaught intended to bury MBS’s dismemberment of Khashoggi and ongoing genocide in Yemen. “But they have cinemas now!”
People seem to have forgotten, or worse - accepted this reality for what it is. I will never forget though and I will keep reminding people ad nauseam.