"But, people also cross the road at night while there are cars driving
at speed....have seen it many times...do these people have a suicide
wish? "

 

---> Some of them did have a suicide wish. These labour had to pay lump sum of money to get jobs in the gulf. Sometimes they had to borrow or sell their lands just to pay the manpower agent.

About 2 or 3 yrs ago ... my thai girlfriend's hubby had a mishap.He is from OZ. And always goes to work with his Harley. One day when he finished work in Toyota Signal ... a labour jumped in front of his bike while the light is green. Both of them hospitalized for quite sometimes (the poor worker apparently tried to commit suicide because of the debt back home, he figure out if an expat involve he could claim a bloody money for his family). My friend is now paralyzed (spelling?) ... and he cant leave the country for the court case. Now the couple packed up their life from Qatar and back to Thailand tried to put everything behind. Whose fault is that?