Saudi Arabia Has Shot Hundreds of Migrants per Human Rights Watch Report

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A report from Human Rights Watch has stated that Saudi border guards have shot hundreds of migrants:

Saudi border guards are accused of the mass killing of migrants along the Yemeni border in a new report by Human Rights Watch.

The report says hundreds of people, many of them Ethiopians who cross war-torn Yemen to reach Saudi Arabia, have been shot dead.
Migrants have told the BBC they had limbs severed by gunfire and saw bodies left on the trails.

Saudi Arabia has previously rejected allegations of systematic killings.

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, titled They Fired On Us Like Rain, contains graphic testimony from migrants who say they were shot at and sometimes targeted with explosive weapons by Saudi police and soldiers on Yemen's rugged northern border with Saudi Arabia.

Migrants contacted separately by the BBC have spoken of terrifying night-time crossings during which large groups of Ethiopians, including many women and children, came under fire as they attempted to cross the border in search of work in the oil-rich kingdom.

"The shooting went on and on," 21-year-old Mustafa Soufia Mohammed told the BBC.

He said some in his group of 45 migrants were killed when they came under fire as they tried to sneak across the border in July last year.

"I didn't even notice I was shot," he said, "but when I tried to get up and walk, part of my leg was not with me."

Hundreds of migrants killed by Saudi border guards - report

Migrants tell the BBC they were shot on the Saudi border as a new report alleges "mass killings".

www.bbc.com

Saudi Arabia continues to promote fundamentalist, moralizing interpretations of Islamic texts while persecuting religious minorities, severely limiting the rights of women and LGBT people, enacting xenophobic laws, contributing to a famine and humanitarian crisis in Yemen, and now shooting refugees.

The Saudi regime is an affront to human decency. If some political and religious leaders in other Islamic countries spent as much effort criticizing Saudi Arabia for this as they did France and Sweden for not having blasphemy laws, perhaps such atrocities wouldn't be committed so casually. The priorities of demagogues and religious extremists continue to be upside down.

 

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A report from Human Rights Watch has stated that Saudi border guards have shot hundreds of migrants:

Hundreds of migrants killed by Saudi border guards - report

Migrants tell the BBC they were shot on the Saudi border as a new report alleges "mass killings".

www.bbc.com

Saudi Arabia continues to promote fundamentalist, moralizing interpretations of Islamic texts while persecuting religious minorities, severely limiting the rights of women and LGBT people, enacting xenophobic laws, contributing to a famine and humanitarian crisis in Yemen, and now shooting refugees.

The Saudi regime is an affront to human decency. If some political and religious leaders in other Islamic countries spent as much effort criticizing Saudi Arabia for this as they did France and Sweden for not having blasphemy laws, perhaps such atrocities wouldn't be committed so casually. The priorities of demagogues and religious extremists continue to be upside down.

Wonder what the reason the Saudi King gave for taking things to such extremes?