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Just your daily reminder that Saudi Arabia is very much a terrorist state.

 

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‘Fired on like rain’: Saudi border guards accused of mass killings of Ethiopians | Human rights | The Guardian

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Report by Human Rights Watch details alleged attacks using explosive weapons and small arms on Saudi Arabia-Yemen border

 

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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.

 

 

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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.

 

 

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“I saw people killed in a way I have never imagined,” Hamdiya, a 14-year-old girl who crossed the border in a group of 60 in February, told researchers. “I saw 30 killed people on the spot.”

HRW’s lead researcher on the report, Nadia Hardman, described the findings as “obscene”.

 

“I cover violence at borders, but I have never come across something of this nature, the use of explosive weapons including against women and children,” Hardman said.

 

The report builds on a mounting body of evidence of extremely serious human rights violations on the Saudi-Yemen border. Last year UN special rapporteurs wrote to the Saudi government with allegations about the killing of hundreds of migrants.

 

 

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Among the most shocking claims are that:

  • Saudi border forces shelled a group of people who had been arrested, detained and expelled even as they attempted to cross the border back into Yemen.
  • Saudi border forces forced a young person who had survived an attack to rape another survivor under threat of execution.
  • People detained after crossing the border were shot at close quarters, and survivors were told by border forces to choose a limb to be shot in.

 

     

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    HRW’s researchers interviewed 42 Ethiopian people who had tried to cross into Saudi Arabia from Yemen, or the friends and relatives of those who tried to cross, and analysed more than 350 videos and photographs posted to social media or gathered from other sources filmed between 12 May 2021 and 18 July 2023.

     

    These included pictures of dead and wounded people scattered along trails used by people-trafficking groups, as well as injured survivors in camps and medical facilities, some with horrific injuries consistent with shrapnel from mortars and similar weapons.

     

    “Saudi border guards have used explosive weapons and shot people at close range, including women and children, in a pattern that is widespread and systematic,” HRW’s report says. “If committed as part of a Saudi government policy to murder migrants, these killings would be a crime against humanity. In some instances, Saudi border guards first asked survivors in which limb of their body they preferred to be shot, before shooting them at close range.

     

    “While Human Rights Watch has previously documented killings of migrants at the border with Yemen and Saudi Arabia since 2014, the killings documented in this report appear to be a deliberate escalation in both the number and manner of targeted killings.”

     

     

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    3 minutes ago, PaladinSolo said:

    No worries, we're already working on giving them security guarantees in order to play nice with Israel!

     

    And that's only one of the conditions the Saudis want.

     

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    Biden should rethink the Saudi Arabia-Israel normalization deal

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    Upon closer examination, the benefits that could accompany such a deal seem far less certain and the risks associated with them are considerable.  

     

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    In essence, the Saudis demand four conditions for going through with their side of the deal. Three are made of the U.S.: an ironclad security guarantee (equivalent to NATO Article V), an elaborate arms package comprising some of the U.S. most sophisticated armaments and civilian nuclear energy assistance that comprises indigenous uranium enrichment on Saudi soil. The fourth condition is aimed at Israel: some concrete steps (of omission as well as commission) toward the Palestinians. Word has it that MBS is also coveting another gain, to be granted role in the Muslim Holy Places in Jerusalem, presently co-managed between Joran and the Palestinians.

     

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    26 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

    Fuck that shit

     

    I couldn't agree more.

     

    ALL of it is goddamned awful and pointless because exactly what American strategic imperative is served by a normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, ESPECIALLY at that cost?  I honestly can't think of a single one.

     

    It's also a feeble -- perhaps, utterly delusional --  attempt by the Biden administration to extend the lifespan of an era of American imperial dominance that's quickly receding into the rear-view mirror:

     

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    Joe Biden aims for a Middle East hat-trick. He’s delusional and out of time | Simon Tisdall | The Guardian

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    The US president is pushing for a Saudi-Israel deal, a breakthrough on Palestine and an understanding with Iran. But the ‘American century’ is long gone

     

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    It’s uncanny, the way America’s declining influence across the Middle East seems to be tracking the previous, humbling retreat of the British empire from the same area. It’s as if the countries of the region, having ditched one overweening imperium, are now rejecting another.

     

    Slowly but surely, ruling regimes and authoritarian leaders are asserting their independence and freedom of action – some democratically, most not – while courting new allies. This reflects in turn a fundamental shift towards a multipolar world, where solo superpowers no longer dominate.

     

     

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    Since taking office in 2021, US president Joe Biden, mindful of recent, scarring American calamities and preoccupied by China and Ukraine, has mostly steered clear of continuing crises in the West Bank, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya and Sudan. His one big Middle East pledge – to salvage the Iran nuclear pact wrecked by Donald Trump – remains unfulfilled. In 1956 the invasion of Egypt fatally undermined Britain as dominant regional power. Is an irrelevant America approaching its own Suez-like turning point?

     

    Unsurprisingly, given his lifelong belief in American pre-eminence, but perhaps unwisely given the tenor of the times, Biden’s answer is no. Instead he’s belatedly launched an ambitious push to re-establish US regional leadership.

     

     

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    And yet, in other respects, this shift is welcome. Why shouldn’t the world’s less powerful but nonetheless independent countries be free to let their interests dictate their allegiances, rather than be herded into permanent blocs, inflexible alliances and mutually antagonistic pacts? In these unsentimental times, why not play the field?

     

    The era of the all-dominant superpower and the “indispensable nation” is drawing to a close. Biden may do his darnedest to sustain the old order. But like Britain’s lost “imperial age”, the “American century” in which he’s so firmly rooted is passing swiftly into history.

     

     

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    8 minutes ago, Massdriver said:

    Fuck the Saudis. I know we are trying to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, but fuck it. Fuck them. Stop providing ANY assistance at all to them. 

     

    Surely Biden isn't naive enough to actually think that the Saudis (or the Israelis) are going to "like" him any better or that they're not gonna totally try to sabotage his re-election chances next year through OPEC production manipulation?


    Because if he actually does, then I really have to question his mental competency at that point.

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    4 minutes ago, TUFKAK said:

    Only potential strategic gain I can see from a Saudi reset is pushing China out.

     

    Thoughts Wade?

     

    Perhaps, but I just don't think Riyadh really gives that much of a damn anymore about what Washington wants.  That doesn't necessarily mean that the Saudis will agree to everything Beijing wants either.

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    11 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

     

    Perhaps, but I just don't think Riyadh really gives that much of a damn anymore about what Washington wants.  That doesn't necessarily mean that the Saudis will agree to everything Beijing wants either.

    I mean im sure they’d like security guarantees from the nation with over a dozen carrier groups.

     

    The Regan parked off shore tends to discourage stupidity.

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