Difficult to read all of that. Absolutely shocking, and I say that as someone who understands what to expect from the brutal saudi state
A timely reminder to anyone on here who suggests that people who raise issues (with state-led violence, persecution, murder, torture) are being culturally insensitive or xenophobic - read this article. and wake up.
wake up because you, as an individual, are an apologist for this behaviour - and believing that it should not be questioned by people (especially westerners) is scumbag behaviour. as is suggesting that 'they have a different culture and should be left to it' - because that is you, as an individual, engaging in xenophobia about people from saudi arabia.
this isn't solely for the reactionaries, the social conservatives, or the fundamentalists on RAWK who've announced themselve in recent months, but just as equally the useful idiots who defend the interests of the raping murdering and torturing saudi state
100% this.
And for anyone who missed / skipped past Yorkie's linked article above...
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‘Fired on like rain’: Saudi border guards accused of mass killings of Ethiopians':-
Report by Human Rights Watch details alleged attacks using explosive weapons and small arms on Saudi Arabia-Yemen borderwww.theguardian.com/law/2023/aug/21/fired-on-like-rain-saudi-border-guards-accused-of-mass-killings-of-ethiopians
a snippet...'Saudi border guards have been accused of killing hundreds of Ethiopians using small arms and explosive weapons in a targeted campaign that rights advocates suggest may amount to a crime against humanity.
The shocking claims are made in a detailed investigation by Human Rights Watch, which interviewed dozens of Ethiopian people who said they were attacked by border guards while they tried to cross into Saudi Arabia from Yemen.
Last week Downing Street confirmed that Rishi Sunak plans to welcome Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman to London “at the earliest opportunity”. It would be the first visit since the death in 2018 of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi, who US intelligence believe was murdered and dismembered by Saudi agents in Istanbul on the orders of Prince Mohammed.
Using satellite imaging, photographs of deaths from more than 20 incidents, witness testimony by survivors and forensic experts’ examination of survivors’ wounds, HRW has built up a compelling and horrific picture of an escalating campaign of extreme violence aimed at people trying to cross the border.
Witness testimony describes mass killings, with women and children dying in shelling, and dead people and body parts spread along trails.'
