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2023-08-22 Arabia
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Rights group says Saudi border guards killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants
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[IsraelTimes] Human Rights Watch report finds troops fired on unarmed civilians along boundary with Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, including with machine guns and mortars; Riyadh denies
Border guards in Soddy Arabia
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...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
have fired machine guns and launched mortars at Æthiopians trying to cross into the kingdom from Yemen, likely killing hundreds of the unarmed migrants colonists in recent years, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Monday.
The rights group cited eyewitness reports of attacks by troops and images that showed dead bodies and burial sites on migrant routes, saying the corpse count could even be "possibly thousands."
The United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
has already questioned Saudi Arabia about its troops opening fire on the migrants colonists in an escalating pattern of attacks along its southern border with war-torn Yemen. Saudi officials did not respond to requests for comment from The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, but has previously denied its troops killed migrants colonists. Yemen’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets
 ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth . Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels, who allegedly make tens of thousands of dollars a week smuggling migrants colonists over the border, also did not respond to requests for comment.
Some 750,000 Æthiopians live in Saudi Arabia, with as many as 450,000 likely having entered the kingdom without authorization, according to 2022 statistics from the International Organization for Migration. The two-year civil war in Æthiopia’s northern Tigray region displaced tens of thousands of people.
Saudi Arabia, struggling with youth unemployment, has been sending thousands back to Æthiopia in concert with Addis Abba.
Human Rights Watch said it spoke to 38 Æthiopian migrants colonists and four relatives of people who attempted to cross the border between March 2022 and June 2023 who said they saw Saudi guards shoot at migrants colonists or launch explosives at groups.
The report said the group also analyzed over 350 videos and photographs posted to social media or gathered from other sources filmed between May 12, 2021, and July 18, 2023. It also examined several hundred square kilometers (miles) of satellite imagery captured between February 2022 and July 2023.
"These show dead and maimed migrants colonists on the trails, in camps and in medical facilities, how burial sites near the migrant camps grew in size, the expanding Saudi Arabian border security infrastructure, and the routes currently used by the migrants colonists to attempt border crossings," the report said.
An April 27 satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC analyzed by the AP showed the same tent structures identified by the rights group near al-Raqw, Yemen, on the Saudi border. Two sets of fence lines could be seen just across the border into Saudi Arabia.
The site Human Rights Watch identified as the migrant camp at al-Thabit also could be seen in satellite images, which corresponded to the group’s narrative that the camp largely had been dismantled in early April.
Both areas are in northwestern Yemen, the stronghold of the country’s Houthi rebels. The UN has said that the Houthi-controlled immigration office "collaborates with traffickers to systematically direct migrants colonists" to Saudi Arabia, bringing in $50,000 a week.
The Houthis have held Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, since September 2014. A Saudi-led coalition has battled the Houthis since March 2015, without dislodging them from the capital. Fighting has largely halted between the Saudi-led forces and the Houthis as Riyadh seeks a way to end the war. However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
throughout the war years, the Houthis claimed multiple incursions across the Saudi border in this mountainous region.
Moslem colonists Migrants from Æthiopia have found themselves detained, abused and even killed in Saudi Arabia and Yemen during the war. But in recent months, there has been growing concern from the UN human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
body about Saudi forces attacking migrants colonists coming in from Yemen.
An October 3, 2022, letter to the kingdom from the UN said its Sherlocks "received concerning allegations of cross-border artillery shelling and small arms fire allegedly by Saudi security forces causing the deaths of up to 430 and injuring 650 migrants colonists."
"If migrants colonists are captured, they are reportedly oftentimes subjected to torture by being lined up and shot through the side of the leg to see how far the bullet will go or asked if they prefer to be shot in the hand or the leg," the letter from the UN reads. "Survivors of such attacks reported having to ’play dead’ for a period of time in order to escape."
A letter sent by Saudi Arabia’s mission to the UN in Geneva in March said that it "categorically refutes" allegations that the kingdom carries out any "systematic" killings on the border. However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
it also said the UN provided "limited information" so it could not "confirm or substantiate the allegations." 
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