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Saudi Arabia has sentenced a group of foreign workers who protested against unpaid wages early last year to 300 lashes and four months imprisonment, exacerbating the already dismal plight of temporary foreign workers in the kingdom.
The men, employed by the construction conglomerates Binladin Group and Saudi Oger, had been waiting for months to be paid. Video footage from their protest in April shows them angrily setting ablaze several buses that belonged to their employers.
[...] Binladen Group, founded by the father of deceased al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, and Saudi Oger, led by Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri, both claimed they were unable to pay employees after a plunge in oil revenues.
The companies say they completed payment to 70,000 sacked employees at the end of 2016 and that workers who are still with the company would be receiving payments soon.
Source: teleSUR
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Sunday January 08 2017, @10:47PM
Well, jerks are kind of laudable compared to the slave-masters that were their "employers". But it would have been more appropriate to kill them than to destroy their property.
OTOH, the property was probably a lot more accessible. They just didn't destroy nearly enough of it. But perhaps that was the best they could manage.
FWIW, I have approximately zero sympathy for the people at the top in Saudi Arabia. I may have sympathy for their young children, to have such despicable parents, but once they become nearly adult they HAVE to be considered responsible for their own actions. Forgiveness depends on sincere repentance, which includes maximal attempts at restitution for damages inflicted.
P.S.: I do not intend this as a religious statement. Or even a philosophical one. Philosophically I'm a kind of determinist, and I'm well aware that the environment has a lot to do with one's moral values. But circumstances require that we judge people on the kind of people they became, not on what they might have become in a better environment. Most of the ruling classes of most (all?) countries are a waste of oxygen, but Saudi Arabia stands out as worse among the vile.
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