On Sunday the globe’s gaze will turn to the controversial hosts of this year’s soccer World Cup, Qatar.
(The Qatar body responsible for putting on the 2022 World Cup has strongly denied these claims.)
According to official Qatari figures, 38 migrant workers have died while working on official World Cup projects.
An investigation by The Guardian, however, estimates up to 6,500 migrant worker deaths since the World Cup was awarded to the Gulf country, though it’s not clear what their exact relation to World Cup infrastructure was.
But the people of the Middle East shouldn’t be punished by having the World Cup tournament withdrawn for the failures of their governments.