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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 10621616" data-attributes="member: 92282">A group of Sri Lankan laborers who tried to kill themselves after  months of begging for food and shelter when their employer went out of  business will each be given $3,000 and flown home for free, the Iraqi  government said Wednesday.Despairing because they hadn't been  paid, 10 of the Sri Lankans climbed a building in Iraq's southern Maysan  province and threatened to hang themselves in May before local  officials intervened and promised to help. The Sri Lankans are among  about 6,000 foreign workers in Iraq, most of whom live in meager  conditions, get little pay and cannot afford to buy plane tickets to  leave.But with about 900,000 unemployed Iraqis, the government  has been looking at ways to send foreign workers home to free up jobs  for citizens.In a statement Wednesday, government spokesman Ali  al-Dabbagh said the workers would be paid and flown back to Sri Lanka,  which they left in 2009 to take construction jobs in Maysan. He also  said the government would sue the Talat Hussam-Din Co. that laid off the  Sri Lankans when it ran out of money to finish the construction  project."This is a positive step toward completely ending the  misery of these helpless workers trapped in our province," Maysan  provincial councilman Wail Salman said. "I am sure that this news will  bring great relief to these workers who have been begging food from  nearby villages."AP</blockquote>

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