South African government says it won’t help thousands of illegal miners inside a closed mine

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1. So is UN going to sanction them?Intentionally starving 10,000 citizens sounds very cruel. South Africa should be ashamed and sanctioned. Such a rich country can’t find a better way to treat these people?

2. I don’t live anywhere close to where any sort of mining happens in South Africa, illegal or legal.

   But from what I’ve seen in the news, these illegal miners can be particularly brutal in the crime they do. People hate them. Hopefully this ends without death and they surrender so they can be arrested.

3. It’s to be expected that the same criminals forcing miners down will lack the necessary equipment to bring them out. 

   On a humanitarian level, if a human life can be saved then it’s worth saving, but reading on the criminals it’s easy to be apathetic against them.

   There’s no good answers here, rescueing them would send a signal to other criminals that they can socialize their losses whenever another collapse like this happens. 

4. They are illegal miners working for organised criminal cartels.

   Besides using explosives,these illegal miners also terrorise the local community by committing serious crimes.

   There’s a reason the army has been deployed to the area on the request of the community.

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