> What the OP is saying about 21000 laborers dying in Saudi Arabian is that huge number would have been noticed by lots of people - and a lot of these people wo

> What the OP is saying about 21000 laborers dying in Saudi Arabian is that huge number would have been noticed by lots of people - and a lot of these people would have had huge incentive to get the word out, and then the "mainstream media" would have had huge incentive to get the word out as well. Well, it's more complicated than that. Take Bangladesh. Most of the people dying are extremely poor young men from the gram (village), whose families are not going to have the power to get their stories in the newspapers, which are owned by ruling class families. Some of these papers even have sibling businesses in their parent conglomerates that actively recruit workers to go to SA, UAE, etc. [0] Also, the political system is desperate for Saudi investment [1][2], so they aren't necessarily going to make a huge public fuss about it. It's certainly in the news though [3][4]. That's all to say that families absolutely know about this, talk about it on social media groups, and nothing happens. [0] https://bashundhara-bd.com/ https://bashundhara-bd.com/, which is owned by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashundhara_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashundhara_Group, which owns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Pratidin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Pratidin . [1] https://en.bd-pratidin.com/national/2024/10/28/21535 https://en.bd-pratidin.com/national/2024/10/28/21535 [2] https://en.bd-pratidin.com/national/2024/10/27/21480 https://en.bd-pratidin.com/national/2024/10/27/21480 [3] https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/87ot8fmapn https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/87ot8fmapn [4] https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/vomgbw8zwa https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/vomgbw8zwa