Human Rights Watch accuses Saudi Arabian border guards of systematically murdering hundreds of Ethiopian migrants.
. The Saudis committed to $11 million in “post-arrival assistance” for the deportees, while Ethiopia appealed to international donors and U.N. agencies for funding.
“First I was eating with people and then they were dying. There are some people who you cannot identify because their bodies are thrown everywhere. Some people were torn in half,” one survivor said. HRW said it backed up these accounts with video and photographic evidence, including satellite photos of the Saudi-Yemen border region. The satellite images showed “dead and wounded migrants on the trails, in camps and in medical facilities,” and “how burial sites near the migrant camps grew in size.”
“I didn’t even notice I was shot, but when I tried to get up and walk, part of my leg was not with me,” said a 21-year-old survivor who is now back in Ethiopia, walking with crutches and a prosthetic limb. The report pointedly noted that Yemen’s Houthis “play a significant role in perpetrating abuses against migrants along this migration route,” including “torture, arbitrary detention, and trafficking in persons.”
A Saudi government source on Monday dismissed HRW’s allegations as “unfounded and not based on reliable sources” in andid
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