Will the deaths of 1,200 workers in Qatar building the 2022 World Cup facilities be a simple footnote in the ugly face of football?
Will our insatiable appetite for an electrifying sport make us oblivious to a crime of Gulag proportions?
According to an investigation by The Guardian published in December 2014, guest workers imported to Qatar to build the pharaonic World Cup Soccer infrastructure are dying at alarming rates: “A report by the International Trade Union Confederation has estimated 1,200 deaths so far, with up to 4,000 additional worker deaths by 2022”.