Qatar World Cup Migrants Portrayed as Country's "Mistreated" Section

Suppressing all the progress and struggles, the issue of Qatar FIFA deaths has been made a campaign against the country and the event it will soon host. Since the 2022 FIFA World Cup hosting rights fell into the hands of Qatar, it has received a number of pushes that were enough for it to drop the opportunity. Despite it all, the small peninsula nation is standing strong to soon welcome some of the greatest football players, officials and the millions of fans.

A number of factors have been attempting to pull back Qatar from growing, which is constantly climbing with an aim of reaching the peak. The most powerful rock that is being thrown at the country is the issues concerning migrant workers, who are allegedly 'mistreated'. Part of this has been the agenda around Qatar World Cup deaths. Few months back, reports were accusing the Arab nation of deaths of over 6,500 migrant workers in a decade. However, the facts behind those figures were covered to use it against the 2022 FIFA.

In an interview with France's newspaper Le Figaro, Qatar's Deputy Director for Media Affairs of the Government Communications Office (GCO), Thamer bin Hamad al-Thani called the criticism of the 2022 Qatar World Cup misplaced. He also revealed that the reports around Qatar FIFA deaths were molding and misleading the facts. The death reports of 6,500 workers are "a far cry from reality". According to the Qatari authorities, the figures include the totals deaths between 2010 and 2020 of residents in the country from Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Nepal. As a matter of fact, not all of the deaths were related to FIFA or any other construction work.

Qatar also became the first country in Middle East to abolish the Kafala labour laws, allowing all the employees to change their jobs or leave the country without obtaining the exit permit from their employers. It was also the first time in the Arab region that a country implemented a mandatory minimum wage for the financial security of the migrant workers. However, what has been absurd is that the country's progress was neglected and the misleading reports around Qatar FIFA deaths gave rise to the boycott calls against football's most prestigious event.

In June 2021, FARA documents revealed that the United Arab Emirates was making deliberate efforts to defame Qatar and run a campaign against the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The Emirates reportedly attempted to "manipulate" journalists and their organizations in Africa "to settle scores in political disputes". The UAE, along with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt, ended the blockade on Qatar earlier this year. However, the attempts to tarnish the image of Qatar have apparently continued. The false reports of Qatar FIFA deaths are probably a side of the such campaigns that are being build to demolish Doha's progress.

The deputy chief of Dubai police, Dhahi Khalfan had once tweeted, "If the World Cup goes out of Qatar, the crisis in Qatar will end because the crisis was made to break it."

It has probably turned out to be true, as the diplomatic crisis has ended, but the campaigns against the 2022 Qatar FIFA World Cup continue.