NYN | News
The Guardian has published a report revealing serious violations committed by Saudi border forces against Ethiopian migrants at the Yemen-Saudi Arabia border. According to testimonies from numerous migrants, they were subjected to indiscriminate gunfire, resulting in the deaths of many, as well as women being raped by soldiers wearing Saudi border guard uniforms.
Migrants provided their testimonies to the British newspaper, with one describing horrific scenes of the dead and injured from the gunfire, while others spoke of being beaten and sexually assaulted by the soldiers.
Other migrants reported witnessing decomposed bodies along the route, reflecting the extent of the violence inflicted upon them during their attempts to cross the border. Rights Watch previously published a report on the crimes of Saudi soldiers at the Yemeni border, documenting hundreds of cases of deliberate killings and torture, classifying these acts as crimes against humanity.
The report indicated the systematic use of firearms and explosives against migrants, including forcing some to make brutal decisions about where to be shot on their bodies.
The enormity of these violations and the silence of the international community raise many questions, as it seems that political and economic interests silence the war crimes committed by Saudi soldiers. If these violations were occurring in a developing country or another region of the world, the international community would have condemned them immediately, and international organizations would have urgently intervened to hold the perpetrators accountable. However, the world’s silence regarding Saudi Arabia makes it impossible to know the true scale of these crimes.
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