WM: Qatar does not recognize victims of work, relatives will demand 380 million compensation

The kick-off time for the 2022 World Cup is fast approaching, but at the same time rumors are mounting about what happened in the run-up to the event in Qatar.

Human Rights Watch’s Minky Worden reported on the workers who lost their lives between 2010 and 2019, and the numbers are tragic.

“Qatar’s official statistics show that 15,021 non-Qatarians died in the country between 2010 and 2019. Not a single migrant worker should have died to make a World Cup possible. Still, thousands died in Qatar,” he said.

In 2021, the Guardian claimed in a report that at least 6,750 migrant workers had died in Qatar since the country was awarded the World Cup, while an investigation by the Daily Mail claimed that there were 2,823 unexplained deaths of non-Qatari working-age workers in Qatar have given Qatar since 2011.

At the same time, the organization’s High Commissioner for Tradition and Legacy claims that there are only three work-related deaths at the World Cup.

Qatar does not grant compensation

Another major problem has to do with compensating the victims’ families, who, according to the Daily Mail, will demand an amount in the region of 380,000,000, about the same as the money FIFA is giving as a bounty.

Although compensation is provided for the victims’ families, it does not cover deaths from natural causes such as heart or pressure, even if the worker’s health was seriously affected by the construction conditions.