So it has happened again. The death sentence upon Rizana Nafeek's head has been carried out. Poverty and deprivation, coupled with foreign recruitment agencies' corrupt trafficking of child labor has cost yet another life. For one second we must not forget that this country churns its wheels from the foreign exchange gushed in by domestic aides sent to the Middle-East. Without them, our tea, rubber and coconuts cannot survive the economy. The 'cogs' in the wheel, driven to no other option for a living, are at the stake of the clutch of global capitalism, which brings them to their own doom. Why not create a proper monitoring system for these recruitment agencies, approve them and discard the rest? If standards are maintained, those sent abroad should be provided with proper pre-training of what is expected from them, rather than just transporting a human entity as a commodified object. In Max Weber's terms, this is a reductionist policy of a 'failed state', since it has not succeeded in maintaining a legitimate use of physical force within its borders. The 'Wonder of Asia' is better resonated as 'Failed state'.
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