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Anish Adhikari awoke at the Qatari labor camp at 4 a.m. to diarrhea from last night’s rotten fish. His tonsils were swollen from the limited water made available by his employer while working 14 hours a day in 125-degree heat. But he remained hopeful that building air conditioners for 80,000 ticket-holders could provide the equivalent of $8,000 over three years to support his family in Nepal. That he could pay back the loan shark who’d secured Adhikari a job beginning in 2019 with the Hamad Bin Khalid Contracting Co. (HBK), the contracting firm owned by the the highest echelons of Qatar’s ruling Al Thani family. He thought of his father and sickly mother living with his six brothers, their four wives, and their eight children in a hurricane-ravaged farmhouse, using an animal shed for a kitchen. But the 23-year-old soccer fan was helping to construct the site of this year’s World Cup final; some days, when he arrived at Lusail Iconic Stadium before dawn, Adhikari forgot how exhausted he was.</blockquote></ref>
Anish Adhikari awoke at the Qatari labor camp at 4 a.m. to diarrhea from last night’s rotten fish. His tonsils were swollen from the limited water made available by his employer while working 14 hours a day in 125-degree heat. But he remained hopeful that building air conditioners for 80,000 ticket-holders could provide the equivalent of $8,000 over three years to support his family in Nepal. That he could pay back the loan shark who’d secured Adhikari a job beginning in 2019 with the Hamad Bin Khalid Contracting Co. (HBK), the contracting firm owned by the the highest echelons of Qatar’s ruling Al Thani family. He thought of his father and sickly mother living with his six brothers, their four wives, and their eight children in a hurricane-ravaged farmhouse, using an animal shed for a kitchen. But the 23-year-old soccer fan was helping to construct the site of this year’s World Cup final; some days, when he arrived at Lusail Iconic Stadium before dawn, Adhikari forgot how exhausted he was.</blockquote></ref>
The exact number of fatal victims of the 'Stadiums of Shame' will never be known <ref>Sean Ingle, [https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/14/stadiums-of-shame-the-numbers-world-cup-hosts-qatar-dont-want-to-be-seen Stadiums of shame: the numbers World Cup hosts Qatar don’t want to be seen], ''The Guardian'', Mon 14 Nov 2022.<blockquote>As the world’s media and teams start to arrive the facts and figures behind workers’ and human rights in Qatar remain hard to uncover.</blockquote></ref> in this Arab [[Islamic]] non-free regime.
The exact number of fatal victims of the 'Stadiums of Shame' will never be known <ref>Sean Ingle, [https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/14/stadiums-of-shame-the-numbers-world-cup-hosts-qatar-dont-want-to-be-seen Stadiums of shame: the numbers World Cup hosts Qatar don’t want to be seen], ''The Guardian'', Mon 14 Nov 2022.<blockquote>As the world’s media and teams start to arrive the facts and figures behind workers’ and human rights in Qatar remain hard to uncover.</blockquote></ref> in this Arab [[Islamic]] non-free regime.
'''2022 FIFA World Cup'''
[[FIFA]] Officials Were Bribed to Award World Cups to Russia and Qatar,<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/sports/soccer/qatar-and-russia-bribery-world-cup-fifa.amp.html U.S. Says FIFA Officials Were Bribed to Award World Cups to Russia and Qatar], ''The New York Times'', Apr 6, 2020.<blockquote>
For nearly a decade, Russia and Qatar have been suspected of buying votes to win hosting rights for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. On Monday, for the first time, the Department of Justice put things in black and white.</blockquote></ref><ref name=rb-18nov22>[https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2022/11/18/roger-bennett-amanpour-qatar-world-cup-controversy.cnn 'Sport is political,' says World Cup podcaster], ''CNN'', Nov 18, 2022. (Roger Bennett in interview).</ref> and it has been surrounded by many controversies.<ref>Ian Ward, [https://www.vox.com/world/23450515/world-cup-fifa-qatar-2022-controversy-scandals-explained The many, many controversies surrounding the 2022 World Cup, explained], ''Vox'', November 19, 2022.<blockquote>
Since FIFA awarded the 2022 World Cup to Qatar in 2010, the tournament has been ensnared in a tangled web of scandals.</blockquote></ref> Including modern day slavery, racist exploitation, thousands of migrants deaths,<ref>[https://www.asianews.it/news-en/Over-6,500-migrant-workers-have-died-all-for-2022-soccer-world-cup-52440.html QATAR Over 6,500 migrant workers have died all for 2022 soccer world cup], Asia.it, Feb 25, 2021</ref> cruel elimination of water drinking while working in the heat.<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/migrant-workers-recount-abuse-while-building-stadiums-for-world-cup-in-qatar Migrant workers recount abuse while building stadiums for World Cup in Qatar], ''PBS'', Nov 18, 2022<br><i> The water we got was almost 90 percent ice. We asked why they did that and told them it was impossible to drink water like that....</i></ref><ref>Aimee Lewis, Pramod Acharya and Sugam Pokharel, [https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/11/17/football/qatar-2022-world-cup-migrant-workers-human-rights-spt-intl/index.html Our dreams never came true.' These men helped build Qatar's World Cup, now they are struggling to survive], ''CNN'', November 17, 2022.</ref>
==People==
==People==