Comments on: Lebanon: Four Ethiopian Maids Commit Suicide in 12 Days http://www.migrant-rights.org/2009/11/02/lebanon-four-ethiopian-maids-commit-suicide-in-12-days/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:49:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Farah Salka http://www.migrant-rights.org/2009/11/02/lebanon-four-ethiopian-maids-commit-suicide-in-12-days/comment-page-1/#comment-16242 Farah Salka Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:58:32 +0000 http://www.migrant-rights.org/?p=567#comment-16242 Why so apologetic anonymous? Why so apologetic anonymous?

]]> By: Anon http://www.migrant-rights.org/2009/11/02/lebanon-four-ethiopian-maids-commit-suicide-in-12-days/comment-page-1/#comment-16232 Anon Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:47:30 +0000 http://www.migrant-rights.org/?p=567#comment-16232 Ok, this is bad, really bad. People should be treated equally no matter who they are, and those girls never deserved this, but please, this has nothing to do with working for Middle Easterns nor Lebanese people. Four maids committing suicide in one country doesn't mean the whole country or the WHOLE middle east will cause maids to commit suicide. There's no perfect place in this world, you'll always find worse somewhere else. Don't tell me outside the Middle East such things don't happen, 'cause they do, and it's no one's fault but those who treated them badly, but not the whole region's or country's. So for once, think before you comment. I've had enough of people being racist and judgmental about the Middle East, have you met ALL the people and ALL the maids there? Guess not. Ok, this is bad, really bad. People should be treated equally no matter who they are, and those girls never deserved this, but please, this has nothing to do with working for Middle Easterns nor Lebanese people. Four maids committing suicide in one country doesn’t mean the whole country or the WHOLE middle east will cause maids to commit suicide. There’s no perfect place in this world, you’ll always find worse somewhere else. Don’t tell me outside the Middle East such things don’t happen, ’cause they do, and it’s no one’s fault but those who treated them badly, but not the whole region’s or country’s. So for once, think before you comment. I’ve had enough of people being racist and judgmental about the Middle East, have you met ALL the people and ALL the maids there? Guess not.

]]> By: Deaths, suicides and more colorox incidents http://www.migrant-rights.org/2009/11/02/lebanon-four-ethiopian-maids-commit-suicide-in-12-days/comment-page-1/#comment-16212 Deaths, suicides and more colorox incidents Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:55:23 +0000 http://www.migrant-rights.org/?p=567#comment-16212 [...] another story relating to clorox. An Indian domestic worker has also died drinking clorox. It was reported that she “mistakenly” drank the [...] [...] another story relating to clorox. An Indian domestic worker has also died drinking clorox. It was reported that she “mistakenly” drank the [...]

]]> By: kirubel http://www.migrant-rights.org/2009/11/02/lebanon-four-ethiopian-maids-commit-suicide-in-12-days/comment-page-1/#comment-10313 kirubel Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:11:14 +0000 http://www.migrant-rights.org/?p=567#comment-10313 Hello fellow ethiopianS! where ever you are! revenge for your sisters death! and humulation! sexual abuse! generally all this massaccar!who is respounsable! in fact they were real slaves of france! OUR ETHIOPIA NEVER........................ but today ! ethiopians become week! some month ago ! i mat an ethiopian girl in paris who had been house maid in lebanone!till 2007! she told me i ashemed to be ethiopian because i new our hero ethiopian males their heroic workes only at home or only locally!!ho! hero! she said we dont need local hero to kill his own people! or his own brother! "we need our male hero who could be compitant with out side world"! with out side men! look she said! even arab men protecting his women from danger by working hard keeping their economy stabel in that desert! and bringing ethiopian girls or your sister as slave and giving her to his son to train well in sex before he married the engaged or selected wife from his country! she saide we have no man! so we are sexual dish for the others! dear brother i walked more than 15 minet i did not remeber what was my feeling! i felt some thing very strang ! i felt as i am a loser! REALLY I HATE MY SELF! MAY BE What I said 'REVENGE' YOU could see it badly but i have no choice for the moment ! i feel down as ethiopian man ! when my women rap in middle east i felt they rub my skin antill i bleed! can not going on like this! let us do some thing please ! what is the meaning of our life after all this stigma! Hello fellow ethiopianS! where ever you are! revenge for your sisters death! and humulation! sexual abuse! generally all this massaccar!who is respounsable! in fact they were real slaves of france! OUR ETHIOPIA NEVER…………………… but today ! ethiopians become week! some month ago ! i mat an ethiopian girl in paris who had been house maid in lebanone!till 2007! she told me i ashemed to be ethiopian because i new our hero ethiopian males their heroic workes only at home or only locally!!ho! hero! she said we dont need local hero to kill his own people! or his own brother! “we need our male hero who could be compitant with out side world”! with out side men! look she said! even arab men protecting his women from danger by working hard keeping their economy stabel in that desert! and bringing ethiopian girls or your sister as slave and giving her to his son to train well in sex before he married the engaged or selected wife from his country! she saide we have no man! so we are sexual dish for the others! dear brother i walked more than 15 minet i did not remeber what was my feeling! i felt some thing very strang ! i felt as i am a loser! REALLY I HATE MY SELF! MAY BE What I said ‘REVENGE’ YOU could see it badly but i have no choice for the moment ! i feel down as ethiopian man ! when my women rap in middle east i felt they rub my skin antill i bleed! can not going on like this! let us do some thing please ! what is the meaning of our life after all this stigma!

]]> By: Migrant Rights http://www.migrant-rights.org/2009/11/02/lebanon-four-ethiopian-maids-commit-suicide-in-12-days/comment-page-1/#comment-9918 Migrant Rights Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:49:47 +0000 http://www.migrant-rights.org/?p=567#comment-9918 @Selam Migrant workers of all nationalities commit suicide as a result of poor living and working condition and abuse by employers. If we claim that the problem is in Ethiopian culture itself, we let abusive employers and apathetic Middle Eastern governments off the hook. Ethiopian Jews in Israel are not fully integrated in Israeli society that often exhibits racism toward Ethiopians, and therefore the prevalence of suicides in that community cannot be attributed to Ethiopian culture or something similar. @Selam
Migrant workers of all nationalities commit suicide as a result of poor living and working condition and abuse by employers. If we claim that the problem is in Ethiopian culture itself, we let abusive employers and apathetic Middle Eastern governments off the hook.

Ethiopian Jews in Israel are not fully integrated in Israeli society that often exhibits racism toward Ethiopians, and therefore the prevalence of suicides in that community cannot be attributed to Ethiopian culture or something similar.

]]> By: Selam http://www.migrant-rights.org/2009/11/02/lebanon-four-ethiopian-maids-commit-suicide-in-12-days/comment-page-1/#comment-9915 Selam Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:59:16 +0000 http://www.migrant-rights.org/?p=567#comment-9915 I'm an ethiopian living in the states. I have a friend who hired an Ethiopian girl for a babysitter. This girl seemed okay in the beginning, but after a while it was clear she had mental issues and was suffering from depression. Sure enough, she tried to commit suicide by drinking clorox bleach. In Israel, where Ethiopian jews are supported and treated well, the rate of suicide is high and is baffling the Israelis. My point is that suicide is a HUGE problem in the Ethiopian community, and Ethiopians are in denial about it. So a story such as yours makes things worse and does not help Ethiopians come to terms with this problem that needs their attention. I’m an ethiopian living in the states. I have a friend who hired an Ethiopian girl for a babysitter. This girl seemed okay in the beginning, but after a while it was clear she had mental issues and was suffering from depression. Sure enough, she tried to commit suicide by drinking clorox bleach.

In Israel, where Ethiopian jews are supported and treated well, the rate of suicide is high and is baffling the Israelis.

My point is that suicide is a HUGE problem in the Ethiopian community, and Ethiopians are in denial about it. So a story such as yours makes things worse and does not help Ethiopians come to terms with this problem that needs their attention.

]]> By: tesfansh http://www.migrant-rights.org/2009/11/02/lebanon-four-ethiopian-maids-commit-suicide-in-12-days/comment-page-1/#comment-9212 tesfansh Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:27:42 +0000 http://www.migrant-rights.org/?p=567#comment-9212 I WISH WILL STOP GONIG TO MIDELE ESTE AS AHAUSE MADE /I HAPP MORE PEPLE WILL AGREE&WILL ATTENTION WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE GIRLS IN MIDELE ESTE. I WISH WILL STOP GONIG TO MIDELE ESTE AS AHAUSE MADE /I HAPP MORE PEPLE WILL AGREE&WILL ATTENTION WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE GIRLS IN MIDELE ESTE.

]]> By: tesfansh http://www.migrant-rights.org/2009/11/02/lebanon-four-ethiopian-maids-commit-suicide-in-12-days/comment-page-1/#comment-9211 tesfansh Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:02:18 +0000 http://www.migrant-rights.org/?p=567#comment-9211 i wish will stop caming fore evere to lebanone . i wish will stop caming fore evere to lebanone .

]]> By: laurah http://www.migrant-rights.org/2009/11/02/lebanon-four-ethiopian-maids-commit-suicide-in-12-days/comment-page-1/#comment-9133 laurah Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:30:26 +0000 http://www.migrant-rights.org/?p=567#comment-9133 Gosh! how i wish those maids who suffer this violence from their employer will find justice! Gosh! how i wish those maids who suffer this violence from their employer will find justice!

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