Pentagon contractors deliberately moved injured foreign workers from Afghanistan 'as quickly as possible' to avoid having to compensate them, a new report shows. CostsOfWar
Many foreign workers who aided the U.S. military by working on bases in Afghanistan during the 20-year occupation—and were more likely than Americans to be killed or injured by bombings—have received little to no compensation for injuries or death, despite the fact that U.S. law requires the Pentagon to recompense them and their families.
Out of more than 200 people the researchers interviewed, 12 were never properly compensated for injuries they suffered on the job, as required by the Defense Base Act , and two who worked with Pentagon contractors in Iraq received compensation only after filing legal challenges. Our review of cases of Nepali workers in Afghanistan, however, finds that many TCNs do not even get to the stage where they can file an insurance claim. This occurs because they are unaware of their rights, their employers do not purchase the required insurance, and/or their employers do not support their victimized employees in filing claims...
One of the Nepali TCNs who was killed while working for the Pentagon was Yam Bahadur, who worked for a security company guarding a compound in Kabul in 2012. He was killed while protecting Americans from a suicide bombing at the compound that year and the Pentagon contractor continued paying his wife, Goma, his salary of $1,000 per month for four years—but Goma"accepted the payments unaware that she might be eligible for any greater amount.
In most cases examined by the authors, injured workers and the families of people who were killed in Afghanistan did not have the means to secure legal representation in the United States.that"the Department of Defense is not aware of the cited study nor any specific cases of Defense Base Act noncompliance" and said the law requires war-hazard insurance and workers' compensation.
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