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28 Oct, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Reporter @mollymotoole spent more than three years reporting the story of a man from Nepal who died, then came back to life. Initially obsessed with solving the mystery of a resurrection, she found herself on a quest for a larger darker truth.
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She found that Saudia Arabia’s push for modernization relies on a labor pipeline from South Asia to the Persian Gulf that reduces workers to expendable, indistinguishable bodies.
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The workers, from Nepal, India, the Philippines, and across Asia, work under Saudi Arabia’s system of kafala. The legal status of migrant workers is tethered to employers. Rights groups, labor experts and international organizations call the system abusive and exploitative
The story of Subash Tamang — a worker who was declared dead after a car accident but woke up very much alive months later — is just one example of the way corporations who sponsor the workers view these humans as dispensable.
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Read @mollymotoole’s investigation: latimes.com/world-nation/s…
Find out how @mollymotoole traced the story from Nepal to Saudia Arabia and back. latimes.com/world-nation/s…

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