cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/2761126

In some instances, Saudi border guards asked migrants what limb to shoot, and then shot them at close range. Saudi border guards also fired explosive weapons at migrants who were attempting to flee back to Yemen.

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    1 year ago

    Wasn’t Zakat (giving alms to the needy) one of the five pillars of islam? Looks like the Saudis don’t take their faith seriously.

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    Approximately 750,000 Ethiopians live and work in Saudi Arabia. While many migrate for economic reasons, a number have fled because of serious human rights abuses in Ethiopia, including during the recent, brutal armed conflict in the north.

    I wonder how many more operate below the legal registration.

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      These are the people who attacked America on 9/11. They agreed to help Bush in his war so we didn’t attack them.

      If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would say that the US worked with them closely before 9/11 and then enacted pre-written legislation immediately after the attack that our intelligence agencies knew was coming. Everybody in the middle was doing their job but our senior representatives never acted on the intelligence that was available. So now Saudi gets special treatment.