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Crown Prince Salman is spending hundreds of trillions of yen on Saudi Vision 2030, which aims to strengthen infrastructure and the economy, and is pushing forward with projects such as the smart city construction plan 'NEOM' and the megacity 'THE LINE' which will be built as part of NEOM.
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According to British television station ITV, investigations into Crown Prince Salman's schemes have revealed harsh working conditions and many workers have died or gone missing.
According to ITV, more than 21,000 workers involved in Saudi Vision 2030 have died since 2017. The deaths include Indians, Bangladeshis and Nepalese, who died from falling iron pipes, collapsing walls and mishandling explosives, but Nepal's Foreign Employment Commission reports that 'the cause of death of more than 650 Nepalese workers remains unknown.' In addition, more than 100,000 workers have gone missing.
Furthermore, the working conditions have also been criticized as being harsh. According to a worker who infiltrated the site, despite the Saudi Arabian law stipulating a maximum working hours of 60 hours per week, he was forced to work 16 hours a day in 'The Line' tunnels, totaling more than 84 hours a week. In addition to the long working hours, he had to take a three-hour bus ride each way to get from his home to the site, and since commuting time is not included in working hours, he did not receive a salary. The worker reportedly said, 'That leaves about four hours of sleep.'
It has also been reported that some employees have not been paid for 10 months, and that senior employees have repeatedly made discriminatory remarks, such as 'South Asian workers are stupid as hell, which is why white people are at the top of the pecking order' and 'Gulf women are transvestites who get turned on by cross-dressing.'
It has also been pointed out that the construction has forcibly evicted more than 20,000 indigenous people who have lived in the area for centuries. A former intelligence officer said that Saudi Arabian security officials were ordered to kill residents who resisted the eviction in early 2020, and a British human rights organization later reported that 'at least 47 tribal members were arrested or detained for refusing to leave, five of whom were sentenced to death.'
Saudi Vision 2030 is progressing steadily, and the luxury resort 'Sindara', designed as part of NEOM, has recently been gradually
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