Mining Conditions

While conducting my research over the past few weeks, I came a video on the conditions of the mining work place. Here are some of the things I found out:
1. Miners worked in the rivers, usually in waist high water.
2. They worked from sun rise to sunset, and sometimes even later.
3. Miners were no allowed to take breaks, or rest at any time during the day.
4. The river was also to be used as a bathroom so that miners would not have to leave their post under any conditions.
5. Due to the human waste polluting the water, disease was spread easily around the entire country.
6. If any worker stopped for any reason they would be shot down, tortured (via amputation) or killed.

These reasons caused many miners to suffer from malnourishment, and many died of starvation, or obtained HIV/AIDS.

The videos I found were provided by The History Channel, and can be found here.