Middle East Focus: On the Gulf: Alleged Interrogations, Expatriate Labor, Economic Crashes, andToga Parties……

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Middle East Focus: On the Gulf: Alleged Interrogations, Expatriate Labor, Economic Crashes, andToga Parties……

On the Gulf: Alleged Interrogations, Expatriate Labor, Economic Crashes, andToga Parties……

“An international rights group has urged authorities in the United Arab Emirates to investigate claims of police torture against 17 Indian men convicted of murder in a suspected turf war among alcohol smugglers. Amnesty International cited allegations by an Indian rights group of abuses carried out over nine days before the suspects offered confessions for the stabbing death of a Pakistan man in January. The men were sentenced to death last month in Sharjah, one of the seven emirates that comprise the UAE. UAE authorities did not immediately respond Saturday to Amnesty's appeal, which was issued a day earlier. The Indian group, Lawyers For Human Rights International, claims the men received electric shocks and beatings and were deprived of sleep. The right group also alleged police forced the suspects to re-enact the alleged killing and presented the video as genuine evidence. The slaying is believed to be linked to illicit liquor rings in Sharjah, a conservative emirate north of Dubai where alcohol is banned. The case also has raised tensions between the UAE and India, which has hundreds of thousands of workers in the Gulf nation………”

In fact the Indian expatriates in the country outnumber the citizens by several times (I have to check the exact number). Who do you think rents all the apartments owned by the oligarchy and buys all the imports of the businesses of memebers of the oligarchy? If these people ever leave, property will be next to worthless (nobody to rent them, design them, build them, maintain them, clean them, cook in them, etc....). It will be a real fuck-up ( to put it succinctly) of major proportions on both the demand and supply sides. Then you’ll see a real economic and financial crash, one that can make the recent Dubai crisis like a fun Toga party.
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