| 斐济为伊拉克危险性工作提供人力-2 A list of 150 men ready and willing to go to Iraq is pinned on his office wall, and he has already sent another 150 - two of whom died. He says the company normally pays more than $170,000 to the family of any man killed or permanently disabled while on security duty, but the family of those two men received nothing. "Some of them from this company jumped to another company. When they went there, they went as escorts. Escorts, you are liable to get shot. And when they jumped (to the other company) they were ambushed and got killed. I received the bodies here because I was the last company, you know, to help them out. I talked to their wives and said: 'This is the body of your husband - nothing else. We don't have any compensation, no nothing.'" As this situation shows, getting paid in Iraq is not a sure thing. Jo, a middle-aged sugar farmer who did not want his full name used, says he was earning $100 a month in Fiji when he decided to sign up with an American security company in Iraq. "We thought we would be paid about 6,000 - because we were doing a very hard job. It was looking after the state witnesses in Saddam's court trial. I was in charge of the witnesses: to bring them over and to take they back to the Red Zone, to their villages in Djalil, Samarra and elsewhere." In the end, Jo says, he was paid a lot less than promised. "They just paid us 1,200 bucks for a month, but it wasn't going into our accounts, but in cash." Q. "Did you ever confront this American company about your pay?" A. "We tell the boss … and he was just telling us, 'Yes, I'm going to inform the big boss.' He was just saying that and end up nowhere." |
