Saudi border guards accused of brutally torturing, raping, and killing thousands of Ethiopian migrants at the border with Yemen received training from the German federal police service and the US military, according to a report by The Guardian.
Furthermore, under the terms of the training agreement with Riyadh, the US army was required to monitor how its training was being used, while border guards were only allowed to operate defensively to protect themselves and their sites from an attack.
“The US army Security Assistance Command provided border guards training, which had been funded for a period from 2015-2023, with the funding period ending in July of this year,” a US official told the British outlet.
Reports from multiple human rights agencies have detailed the magnitude of the abuses committed by the US and German-trained guards.
Ethiopian migrants are tortured, lined up against walls and shot at for amusement, executed, and even targeted with explosives, a report by the Mixed Migration Centre (MMC) detailed in June, adding that girls as young as 13 have been raped by Saudi security forces “and pushed back across the border into Yemen without their clothes.”
A “clandestine cemetery” in north Yemen near the Saudi border reportedly contains the remains of up to 10,000 migrants. The MMC report includes corroborations from several Ethiopian migrants.
The genocide again received international attention last week when Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a report documenting how “Saudi border guards opened fire on Ethiopian migrants as they tried to cross from Yemen.”
In one case cited in the HRW report, migrants said Saudi guards had asked them which limb they preferred to be shot in. In another case, a 17-year-old boy said guards had forced him and another migrant to rape two girls as the guards looked on.
The Guardian cites anonymous sources as saying that Saudi authorities have increasingly treated illegal incursions in its borders as a “counter-terrorism issue,” authorizing the use of lethal force.
The news outlet was also told that Saudi Arabia “employs extensive and centrally monitored electronic surveillance of the border area, meaning it should be able to distinguish groups of trafficked civilians from those involved in armed incursions from Yemen or drug smuggling.”
HRW said in its report that if it is established that the genocide was an official policy of the kingdom, it would amount to a “crime against humanity.”
Earlier this week, the New York Times (NYT) revealed that US diplomats began receiving horrific reports last fall with information detailing the Saudi genocide of Ethiopian migrants on the border with Yemen but still chose to remain quiet.
US State Department officials claim that US diplomats privately raised the issue with their Saudi counterparts and asked them to investigate. The NYT states, “It remains unclear whether those discussions have affected Saudi actions.”
Among the diplomats briefed by the UN was Steven Fagin, the US ambassador to Yemen. The UN also shared information with others at the State Department and with diplomats from France, Germany, Holland, Sweden, and the European Union.
The NYT noted further that Inside Yemen, the border killings are widely known. Some attacks are reported on Yemeni television, and many wounded are treated in Yemeni hospitals.
❖❖❖[Revelation 18:3]❖❖❖ “For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality.”
We are living in that time. Both Israel and Judah (that little plot of land in the Middle East everyone wants so dearly called the nation of Israel now). Israel is everything else. Israel has been restored. It’s no longer in captivity. It’s the wealthiest nation in the world. And Judah, that little nation is the Middle East, is not far behind. We also looked at Revelation 18:3, “For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies [or strength].”
The harlot has used her strength, which is oil, to cause the nations to be drunk with her maddening influence that leads hatred to the nation of Judah, which is that little plot of land in Israel today; and also Israel, which is lead by Ephraim.
What does the wine represent? Oil, not anointing oil, crude oil. That is the physical sense of it.
In the spiritual sense, it represents the poison that is called Islam. So Islam and oil.
Mystery Babylon is in Saudi Arabia. It is not a resurrected Babylon in Iraq. The reason why it is a mystery is because it will have a new location, which it does now, and that too will be destroyed because it will be judged due to her unexplainable hatred, which she causes the nations to partake in because of her demon possessed idolatrous doctrines, the poison that is Islam. It is quite evident. Just pick up a newspaper or listen to international news. It causes man to hate and be in a rage. She’s trying constantly to cause the nations to turn on Judah, and believe it or not, Israel. With Israel, it is the nations of Israel with Ephraim as the leader. It’s a little bit different how it works, but the agenda is the same.
❖ Colors of Zion / የጽዮን ቀለማት ❖ On the Flag of Seychelles/ በሲሸልስ ባንዲራ ላይ!
👉 Israel after the flesh (Corporate Israel) is promoting Hagarism / Ismailism!
❖❖❖[Revelation 18:3]❖❖❖ “For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality.”
❖❖❖[1 Corinthians 10:18-20]❖❖❖
“Behold Israel according to the flesh: are not they, that eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar? What then? Do I say, that what is offered in sacrifice to idols, is any thing? Or, that the idol is any thing? But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God. And I would not that you should be made partakers with devils.”
❖❖❖[Galatians Chapter 4]❖❖❖
21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
🚁 Babylonian Drama: Saudi Arabia gets some unlikely visitors when a plane full of Israelis makes an emergency landing. Israeli PM Netanyahu thanks Saudi Arabia after emergency plane landing.
(30 Aug 2023) An Air Seychelles plane carrying Israelis has returned to Tel Aviv after making an emergency stop in Saudi Arabia due to an electrical malfunction.
A plane carrying Israelis home from the Indian Ocean island nation of Seychelles made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia before flying back to Tel Aviv on Tuesday, in what Israel praised as a sign of goodwill as Washington works to establish formal relations between the two countries.
The Air Seychelles flight carrying 128 passengers was forced to land Monday because of an electrical malfunction. Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the passengers spent the night at an airport hotel in Jeddah and were flown back by the airline on an alternate plane.
Passengers described a frightening stretch of time as an acrid burnt smell filled the cabin and the pilot came over the intercom to say the plane would be forced to make an emergency stop in Saudi Arabia, a kingdom with which Israel has no air links or diplomatic ties.
With dozens trapped on board and the plane idling on the tarmac, tension grew, passengers said, while Israeli officials scrambled to figure out what to do. Soon Saudi security forces escorted the Israelis to a hotel.
💭 The State Department was horrified by the murder of Post correspondent Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. It should be equally horrified by the deaths of hundreds, maybe thousands, of Ethiopian migrants, for whom Saudi Arabia is directly responsible. Their lives matter, too.
Border guards from Saudi Arabia killed “hundreds, possibly thousands” of Ethiopian migrants crossing from Yemen into Saudi Arabia over a 15-month period, according to the Aug. 22 news article “Saudi forces killed hundreds of Ethiopians at Yemen border, report says,” which discussed a report from Human Rights Watch. Between March 2022 and June 2023, Saudi border guards fired explosives at migrants, shot others in their limbs and forced male migrants to rape female survivors. The attacks appear to have been widespread and systematic, making Saudi Arabia guilty of a “crime against humanity,” according to the United Nations’ definition.
The United States, which provides $140 billion in foreign military sales to Saudi Arabia and considers it a “regional ally,” responded to these vicious attacks against innocent Ethiopians with a slap on the wrist. The State Department raised “concerns” with the Saudi government and encouraged the Saudis to “undertake a thorough and transparent investigation” into what happened.
The State Department was horrified by the murder of Post correspondent Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. It should be equally horrified by the deaths of hundreds, maybe thousands, of Ethiopian migrants, for whom Saudi Arabia is directly responsible. Their lives matter, too.
Sanders called the allegations “horrific” in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
A report from humanitarian nonprofit organization Human Rights Watch released last Monday alleged that Saudi Arabian border guards have killed “hundreds, possibly thousands” of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers attempting to cross the Yemeni-Saudi border between March 2022 and June 2023.
The report, which is based on interviews with witnesses and analyses of photos, videos and satellite imagery, alleges that the border guards used explosive weapons and shot people at close range, including women and children, in a “widespread and systematic” “pattern.”
The report argues that if this is official government policy, these killings would constitute a “crime against humanity.”
The report also alleges survivors were tortured, raped or subjected to other inhumane treatments.
A Saudi official told Reuters last week the allegations in the report were “unfounded,” but the country is working with the Ethiopian foreign ministry, which has launched an investigation—Ethiopian authorities called for “restraint from making unnecessary speculations” and touted the country’s relationship with Saudi Arabia.
👉 SURPRISING FACT
Some Saudi Arabian border guards allegedly asked migrants which limbs they’d prefer to be shot in before shooting those migrants at close range, according to the Human Rights Watch report.
👮 French authorities are to ban the ugly ☪ Jihad clothing and the wearing in school of abaya dresses worn by some Muslim women, the education minister said Sunday, arguing the garment violated France’s strict secular laws in education.
😈 Uncle Joe Biden Can’t Quit the Evil Saudi Pariahs
Listen to what Biden said during his campaign; despite his pledges, the president has continued to back Saudi Arabia and its murderous de facto ruler.
Well, God’s wrath is already at work in both of these Babylonian, Edomite & Ishmaelite nations, woe to them!፡
❖❖❖[Genesis 28:9]❖❖❖
“Esau went to Ishmael and took as his wife, besides the wives he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth.”
❖❖❖[Romans 9:6-8]❖❖❖
“But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel; nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants, but: “through Isaac your descendants will be named.” That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants.”
❖❖❖[Romans 1:18-19]❖❖❖
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.”
“The report said that if killing migrants were official Saudi policy, it could be a crime against humanity.”
💭 The United States was told last year that Saudi security forces were shooting, shelling and abusing groups of migrants, but it chose not to raise the issue publicly.
Last fall, American diplomats received grim news that border guards in Saudi Arabia, a close U.S. partner in the Middle East, were using lethal force against African migrants who were trying to enter the kingdom from Yemen.
The diplomats got more detail in December, when United Nations officials presented them with information about Saudi security forces shooting, shelling and abusing migrants, leaving many dead and wounded, according to U.S. officials and a person who attended the meetings, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity since they were not authorized to speak to journalists.
In the months since, American officials have not publicly criticized the Saudis’ conduct, although State Department officials said this past week, following a published report of the killings, that U.S. diplomats have raised the issue with their Saudi counterparts and asked them to investigate. It remains unclear whether those discussions have affected Saudi actions.
The Saudi security forces’ violence along the border came to the fore in a report by Human Rights Watch on Monday that accused them of shooting and firing explosive projectiles at Ethiopian migrants, killing hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of them during the 15-month period that ended in June.
The report was based on interviews with migrants and their associates, photos and videos and satellite photos of the border area. It cited migrants who said Saudi guards had asked them which limb they preferred before shooting them in the arm or leg and a 17-year-old boy who said guards had forced him and another migrant to rape two girls as the guards looked on.
The report said that if killing migrants were official Saudi policy, it could be a crime against humanity.
In January, Richard Mills, the deputy U.S. representative to the United Nations, made an oblique reference to the issue, saying at a Security Council briefing on Yemen that “we remain concerned by alleged abuses against migrants on the border with Saudi Arabia.”
“We urge all parties to allow U.N. investigators to access both sides of the border to thoroughly investigate these allegations,” Mr. Mills added, without mentioning that U.S., European and U.N. officials had recently learned that many Africans had been killed by Saudi Arabia’s border forces.
In a statement sent to The New York Times on Saturday night, after this article was initially published, the State Department said the United States learned about specific accusations after the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights publicly released letters it had sent on the issue to Saudi Arabia and to Houthi officials in Yemen in late 2022. (A response rebutting the accusations sent by Saudi diplomats in March indicates at least one U.N. letter was sent on October 3. The public release was 60 days later, the State Department said.)
“The United States quickly engaged senior Saudi officials to express our concern,” the department said, adding that U.S. officials “have continued to regularly raise our concerns with Saudi contacts,” including at the Security Council briefing in January.
The new details about the Saudi border killings come as President Biden seeks to overcome past tensions and cinch a diplomatic breakthrough between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Late last year, around the time when U.S. diplomats were learning about the border violence, Mr. Biden accused Saudi Arabia of acting against U.S. interests over other issues. Saudi leaders had cut oil production, potentially leading to a rise in global oil prices before the midterm elections. Biden administration officials thought they had reached a secret agreement for the Saudis to increase production. Mr. Biden vowed to impose “consequences” on Saudi Arabia.
Further straining relations, Saudi Arabia had declined to join Western sanctions on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. And Riyadh’s decision to decrease oil production seemed to support Russia’s economy, which relies on oil and gas exports.
But in recent months, Mr. Biden and his aides have been talking to Saudi officials about their country establishing diplomatic relations with Israel, which would be a major geopolitical coup. In those discussions, the Saudis have asked the United States for security guarantees, more lethal weapons and help with a nuclear energy program. Mr. Biden might speak with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia, on the sidelines of a leadership summit of the Group of 20 nations next month in New Delhi, India.
Some members of Congress, mostly Democrats, have strongly criticized Saudi Arabia for its human rights record, including its yearslong war in Yemen. Those lawmakers will almost certainly raise further doubts about selling more arms to Saudi Arabia or working with it on a civilian nuclear program, which some U.S. officials fear could be cover for a nuclear weapons program.
Among those briefed on the killing last December by United Nations officials was Steven H. Fagin, the U.S. ambassador to Yemen, according to a person who was present. Around that time, the United Nations also shared information with others at the State Department and with diplomats from France, Germany, Holland, Sweden and the European Union, this person said.
Inside Yemen, the border killings are anything but secret. Some attacks are reported on Yemeni television, and many of those wounded end up in Yemeni hospitals.
“We face these cases daily coming from the border areas: dead and seriously wounded, women, old people and children,” Mujahid al-Anisi, the head of the emergency unit at al-Jumhori Hospital, a Yemeni facility near the main crossing zone, told the The New York Times by phone on Wednesday.
The hospital receives an average of four or five cases a day, he said. Many are found by the road unconscious and driven 12 hours to the hospital with wounds in their heads, chests and abdomens that require urgent surgeries. Some need amputations. About one in 10 are women.
“These people arrive so worried and badly wounded,” he said.
Aid workers and United Nations officials have been tracking the violence since early last year, but international efforts to investigate the matter have been few, and public efforts to make it stop even fewer.
That’s because of many factors, aid workers said. Delivering aid in war zones like Yemen requires not angering one’s hosts, including the rebels who control northern Yemen and facilitate human trafficking, or one’s funders, which in some cases includes Saudi Arabia.
Rights violations, no matter how grave, rarely take priority when diplomats do business with their counterparts from rich partners like Saudi Arabia. And most efforts at accountability first call for Saudi Arabia to investigate itself, which it has shown little willingness to do.
Further limiting attention to the killings is their location, in an inaccessible border zone, where journalists, activists and other independent observers can’t witness events.
Fatigue among donors and the public with Yemen’s complicated, eight-year war also plays a role, as does the fact that the mostly Ethiopian migrants crossing Yemen are unlikely to show up in Europe.
“There is no risk for anyone, so they don’t pay attention to the problem,” said Ali Mayas, who has researched migration issues at Mwatana, a Yemeni human rights group.
Human rights groups have long documented threats to migrants from East Africa who cross the Gulf of Aden to Yemen and head north toward Saudi Arabia, where they hope to find work or escape political persecution. They started getting reports of increased violence on the border about two years ago.
Last September, Mwatana reported that the bodies of about 30 Yemeni and Ethiopian migrants had been found on May 12, 2022, on the Saudi side of the border, some bearing gunshot wounds or signs of torture. A State Department human rights report on Saudi Arabia’s acts in 2022 mentioned Mwatana’s research in a paragraph.
The Missing Migrants Project of the International Organization for Migration found that at least 788 migrants had died near the Saudi border in 2022, mostly from artillery or gunfire. The actual number of those killed was likely much higher, the organization said.
Last October, a group of United Nations experts confronted Saudi Arabia with reports similar to what Human Rights Watch would later find. They cited allegations that border guards had shot at migrants, killing as many as 430 in the first four months of 2022, and raped women and girls, sending some back to Yemen naked.
The experts said that, if confirmed, the incidents would indicate “a deliberate policy of large-scale, indiscriminate and excessive use of lethal force” to deter migrants and urged Saudi Arabia to rein in its forces.
The kingdom denied the allegations and said it needed more detail in order to investigate.
Nadia Hardman, the lead researcher on the Human Rights Watch report, said Western governments struggled with how to press Saudi Arabia on human rights.
“What is conceivable in the face of a country that just doesn’t care about its human rights record?” she said.
In a phone interview, Morris Tidball-Binz — the United Nations’ special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions — who is a signatory to the experts’ letter to the Saudi government, said he was not surprised that the issue had received little attention. The events happened in a remote place, he said, “where the authorities are not known for being highly committed to respecting and protecting human rights.”
But he said he hoped increased public scrutiny would make a difference.
“The immediate reaction of denial is a typical one,” he said of the Saudi response. “But I am still hoping that we’ll see some improvements in terms of respect for, if not protection of, these migrants.”
🛑 Why Is Trump in Love With The Utterly Disgusting Babylon Saudi Arabia So Much?
⚡ Lombardy in the north of Italy was hit by a violent storm with heavy rain, wind and lightning. It is part of a cyclone that is moving towards the south of the country and is expected to bring many weather inconveniences in other Italian countries already in the evening.
Conditions were worst in the area between Monza, Seregna and Rho in the greater Milan area, where extremely strong winds were blowing. There are reports from the area, including from Milan, of exposed roofs and problems with tram traffic, as branches fell on its network.
Due to damage to the track, traffic on the railway line between Milan and Alessandria was temporarily suspended.
Thunderstorms and heavy rain are also expected in other parts of Italy from the evening hours, including Liguria, Piedmont and Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
👉 Now, will Formula 1 be forced to cancel this weekend’s F1 Italian Grand Prix at Monza.?
Let’s remember, back in May, Formula 1 and the FIA canceled the Imola GP because of this:
⚡ The Sky is Attacking Italy! Shell-Shocked Italy Struggles to Come to Terms With ‘apocalyptic’ Tourist Region Floods
♀️ Female Italian Prime Minister Meets Black Mussolini Who Massacred Over a Million Orthodox Christians
❖ 200.000 Orthodox Christian Women, children and nuns were Raped and abused
❖ 1.5 Million Orthodox Christians brutally Massacred
❖ Over a Million female Ethiopian slaves sold to Arab countries
by the fascist Muslim-Protestant Oromo army of PM Abiy Ahmed Ali and his Italian, Arab, Turkish, Iranian, European, American, Russian, Ukrainian, African allies.
❖ 200.000 Orthodox Christian Women, children and nuns were Raped and abused by the fascist Muslim-Protestant Oromo army of Abiy Ahmed Ali, yet Italian PM Meloni & Black Mussolini aka Ahmed were on Their 2nd Date Holding Hands & Kissing
🔥 Spectacular Mount Etna Eruption Forces Cancellation of All Flights at Sicilian Airport
🔥 Tens of thousands of travelers due to fly into Sicily’s busiest airport have had their flights diverted or canceled today due to the spectacular eruption of nearby Mount Etna.
👉 Courtesy: GlobalNews
🔥 Italy Invited a Genocider, the Black Mussolini aka Ahmed Ali | Woe to Italy, Mount Etna is Boiling!
💭 The report by Physicians for Human Rights says that even since the ceasefire in Ethiopia last November, sexual violence against women and girls, as an act of war, has continued.
Ethiopia’s civil war ended last year, but a new report alleges that members of the military have continued to commit widespread acts of sexual violence on civilians. NPR’s Ari Daniel reports.
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