Dubai: A story of high structures, low human values

All the great achievements of Dubai were a thrill for every new comer, visitor or a resident worker but I was more concerned about its shanties where hundreds of thousands of construction workers were forced to live in dismal conditions. I was full of contempt with the behaviour of local Arabs with immigrants and the way the Government was bribing them to live like parasites. They were simply living at the cost of hard work of immigrants without doing anything on their own. Hardly high school graduates, the local nationals were awarded good jobs in Govt. sectors or the private companies where they would chat for hours on their premium phones with pleasure, displaying their fancy branded dresses splashed with costly perfumes and most of the work load was to be accomplished by their sub-ordinates who were mostly South Asian. It was the worst form of modern human slavery and most often I was reminded by history when slaves created the first human civilization in Egypt, that was forced slavery in contrast to the modern slavery in Dubai where people from neighboring countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Philippines, Yemen, Sudan, Syria, Egypt, etc. came to accept this voluntarily.

 As soon as my immigration application process developed, I became increasingly critical toward UAE Govt. and started writing for various web sites in the west. I was aware that it could cost me a severe blow if apprehended. So, psychologically I was living under constant threat where no one knew who the intelligence personnel could be. The young chaps of Locals were an obvious choice of the regime which back fired miserably as lack of training and maturity. Sometimes it was Asians too who were cabbies in the city and they were to report to their employers who were always local Sheikhs. The more closely I saw the operation of the state of their policies, the more I felt that this place was not worth to live in anymore. It was a good place for those who did not have feelings for others, or a hedonist or best for the hypocrites who performed the five time prayers and kept their eyes closed towards all sorts of illegal, inhuman and disgraceful activities of the ruling class and its parasitic society toward immigrants in general and working class in particular. It was definitely not the right place for people with a conscience anymore. Renowned economist Samir Amir termed the so-called development of Middle Eastern states as “Lumpen Development”. It’s the favorite place for those who have vast ill gotten black money from Russia, Middle Eastern countries and south Asian countries like Pakistan and India. They are the big shots who are playing crucial role in the development of UAE by launching numerous building projects. The traditional trading community is being marginalised by the barrage of Malls and big supply chain stores and even the gold business is overtaken by big guns like Damas etc. Time was flying fast and we continued to provide the required documentation for the immigration process for example, the IELTS exam clearance whose certificate was submitted in July 2007

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