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21,000 Dead: The Worker Death Toll Behind Saudi Vision 2030
21,000 workers from India, Bangladesh, and Nepal dead since 2017. 100,000 missing. 80% of deaths classified as 'natural causes' without autopsy. The forensic account of the labour catastrophe behind Saudi Arabia's national transformation.
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Abdul Wali Skandar Khan: The First Documented Death on a NEOM Construction Site
A 25-year-old Pakistani engineer died when a guardrail collapsed at NEOM. No investigation. No compensation. His brother flew to Saudi Arabia to retrieve the body. The first formally documented worker death on a NEOM construction site.
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The Wayne Borg Tapes: Racism, Dead Workers, and the Executive Culture Inside NEOM
Three workers died. The executive's response: 'A whole bunch of people die so we've got to have a meeting on a Sunday night.' He called South Asian labourers slurs. The Wall Street Journal investigation into NEOM's executive culture.