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Old 15th Feb 2011, 16:00
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Dubai is FULL of slave labour. Where do you think all the construction workers come from? Its this slave labour that builds cheap infrastructure, which in turn means lower costs for the likes of EK

The dark side of Dubai

"To get you here, they tell you Dubai is heaven. Then you get here and realise it is hell," he says

"Every evening, the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town, where they are quarantined away. Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on cattle trucks, but the expats complained this was unsightly, so now they are shunted on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat. They sweat like sponges being slowly wrung out."
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