Le côté obscur de Dubai

Voilà un article très bien écrit que j'ai découvert dans la section international de SSC. Il montre comment fonctionne l'Emirat de Dubai : ouvriers réduits en esclavage après de fausses promesses, liberté d'expression réduite à néant, projets mégalomaniaques voués à l'échec, citoyens dubaiotes vivant de l'exploitation des autres...

L'article est en anglais, mais il mérite tout de même d'être posté ici. Le constat est accablant.

The dark side of Dubai
by Johann Hari, April 7th 2009.

Dubai was meant to be a Middle-Eastern Shangri-La, a glittering monument to Arab enterprise and western capitalism. But as hard times arrive in the city state that rose from the desert sands, an uglier story is emerging. Johann Hari reports

The wide, smiling face of Sheikh Mohammed – the absolute ruler of Dubai – beams down on his creation. His image is displayed on every other building, sandwiched between the more familiar corporate rictuses of Ronald McDonald and Colonel Sanders. This man has sold Dubai to the world as the city of One Thousand and One Arabian Lights, a Shangri-La in the Middle East insulated from the dust-storms blasting across the region. He dominates the Manhattan-manqué skyline, beaming out from row after row of glass pyramids and hotels smelted into the shape of piles of golden coins. And there he stands on the tallest building in the world – a skinny spike, jabbing farther into the sky than any other human construction in history.

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