This was so difficult for me to read. It’s too damn heart breaking. I swear, I can’t believe how some people can manage to do this shit to other human beings and not even be bothered by it. Don’t they feel a single ounce of guilt?
I witnessed such treatment with my own eyes during my childhood days in Qatar, kids as young as 9 slapping their maids and spitting in their face. I still remember how disgusted I used to be seeing it all. This is nothing less than slavery.
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It is thoroughly disgusting. I was so relieved when this kind of treatment of migrant workers was revealed in the report on the United Arab Emirates ( http://www.hrw.org/reports/2006/uae1106/ )
because I was sick and tired of the media touting the place as heaven with a beach when I knew damn well it was built on the backs of virtually enslaved workers who had no access to their own passports, were being cheated by disgusting “sponsors” who asked for more and more money each time.
Whenever I complained, all I would be told is the same old “They make far more money here than they do back home, they have friends back home who’d kill for the same opportunity.” If that’s true, then the people who perpetuate it, standing idly by should have felt even more ashamed that they made these desperate people grovel and say thank you for the slaps in the faces they got. I am so pleased that the word union is now on their lips, vive la revolution!
It’s good that the issue is now getting attention but it still certainly needs way more.
I knew a guy a few years ago who lived in the Gulf and had a maid working in his house at the time. He once proudly boasted to me about how one time he and 2 of his friends took turns to rape her!
It’s as if she was an animal, a dirty slave with no soul. I felt like puking and … never mind.
It always amazes me how some people can forget how humans are supposed to treat other humans.
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