Saudi Arabia: Germany’s Help With Cruel Border Protection | Deutschlands Hilfe Beim Grausamen Grenzschutz

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😈 THE SCENE OF THE CRIME: the border area between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The perpetrators: Saudi border guards, equipped with cameras, state-of-the-art weapons and telescopic sights. They have been equipped and trained with Western help for decades. Also with German support. Because since 2009, the German Federal Police has been offering training courses for Saudi border guards. In order, according to the reasoning, to promote “conduct in accordance with the rule of law and human rights”.

Systematic shootings, attacks, executions – reports from Human Rights Watch and the United Nations accuse Saudi Arabia of brutally dealing with refugees on the Saudi-Yemeni border. Saudi border guards have been professionally trained by the German federal police for years. Germany also plays an essential role in upgrading with state-of-the-art surveillance systems.

Georg Restle: “Saudi Arabia’s most powerful man, Mohamed Bin Salman – an always sought-after partner for heads of government around the world and also for the German federal government. Now, however, these pictures have appeared here: photos of massacres of refugees, allegedly carried out by Saudi Arabian border guards .

Those are terrible crimes. Crimes in which Germany could also play a not inconsiderable role. That’s what it’s about for us. Good evening and welcome to MONITOR.

Yes, the high importance of human rights. Hardly a day goes by without this federal government pointing this out. Somehow it just doesn’t quite fit together. Friendly government visits to a man who had government critics like journalist Kashoggi slaughtered. Sure, it’s about business, about an energy partnership above all. Such crimes do not fit well into the picture. Refugees brutally tortured and murdered on the Saudi Arabian border with Yemen, mass graves. Crimes that are now causing the German government to have trouble explaining themselves – because the good partnership also applies to an area that people don’t like to talk about, as our research shows. Shafagh Laghai, Silke Diettrich and Veronique Gantenberg.”

The border region between Yemen and Saudi Arabia. These pictures were taken by people from Ethiopia fleeing to Saudi Arabia – among them seriously injured people. When trying to cross the border, Saudi border guards fired at them, they say, at close range, including with grenades. Dear God, have mercy, says this man. These are serious allegations: allegations that the human rights organization Human Rights Watch has investigated.

Nadia Hardman, Human Rights Watch: “What we have documented over the past two years is a dramatic escalation – in both nature and scale. This killing is widespread and systematic, and could constitute a crime against represent humanity.”

Satellite images analyzed by Human Rights Watch show suspected mass graves in the border region. The human rights organization estimates that at least 655 people have been killed since March last year. The actual number could be much higher. Saudi Arabia has denied any allegations that the statements were based on unreliable sources. We go in search of eyewitnesses in eastern Ethiopia ourselves. Mustafa Soufian Mohammed fled the civil war, poverty and hunger, he says. He wanted to work in Saudi Arabia for a few years, earn money for his family. Now he has an amputated leg. He barely survived the Saudi firing squad.

Mustafa Soufian Mohammed (Translation Monitor): “As soon as we crossed the border into Saudi Arabia, we were met by a Saudi border patrol. There was absolutely no warning – they didn’t say anything. They just kept shooting at us. It was unbearable to see how people were being killed and injured around me.”

Mustafa shows us pictures of his injuries. He only survived because other refugees found him and brought him back to Yemen.

Mustafa Soufian Mohammed (Translation Monitor): “We were 45 people when we left for Saudi Arabia. I lost my leg. Most of the others lost their lives. Only three from my group could be located. I guess , the others are dead.”

💭 Serious allegations against Saudi border guards. However, the accusations are also explosive for the German federal government, which is currently focusing on rapprochement. Chancellor Olaf Scholz traveled to the Kingdom last autumn. The relationship should be reinvigorated; He was accompanied by a business delegation. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock paid a visit in May of this year. The goal here, too, is to expand economic relations. It’s about arms exports and an energy partnership with Saudi Arabia. It’s about business – in the good old tradition. Also here in the border region. Saudi Arabia has been sealing off its borders for years to protect itself from militias from civil war-torn Yemen and Iraq. And, Germany plays a decisive role in this. Review: In 2008, the European armaments company EADS – now Airbus – was awarded the contract to build a massive border facility in Saudi Arabia: protective fences, barriers to protect people. Documents from that time show how extensive the delivery was. Thermal imaging cameras, laser sensors and ground penetrating radar. A deal worth billions: State-of-the-art German technology from EADS.

Max Mutschler, Peace Research Institute BICC: “Germany played a major role in the massive upgrade of the Saudi border guards. Very, very many different technologies were delivered there. Things that you really need to monitor the border at a modern, technological level .”

And that’s not all. The ARD magazine Fakt uncovered at the time: in these desert camps, Saudi Arabian border guards were being trained on the new EADS technology by the German federal police. The German officials were part of the EADS deal. A contract between the federal government and Saudi Arabia should regulate what the federal police officers have to do in the desert. What is surprising is that the wording is vague and general. It will be one

Quote: “Cooperation in the field of safety training”

agreed. Secretly leaked videos from that time show that German officials – here in blue uniforms – are also training Saudi border guards on weapons. Even then, Saudi security forces were considered extremely brutal. Observers say that little has changed since then.

Max Mutschler, peace research institute BICC: “The Saudi security forces have no record as far as the human rights record is concerned, they are not units that should be supported with armaments and with security and surveillance technologies.”

But that is exactly what the federal government is doing – even today. But have the federal police also trained border guards who shoot at refugees on the Yemeni border? What does the responsible Ministry of the Interior say?

Sonja Kock, spokeswoman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior: “There are no training measures specifically for the Saudi Arabian border guard and at no time have the federal police received training for the Saudi Arabian border guard in the border area between Saudi Arabia and Yemen.”

So the federal police in Saudi Arabia are no longer training border guards? We manage to contact several federal police officers. You are currently active as a trainer in Saudi Arabia or were just recently. You want to remain anonymous. We log the conversations. They contradict the statements of the Interior Ministry. Their training was aimed “without exception at Saudi border officials.” Participants are all “officers of the border guard”. The training contents are “coordinated with the border installations” and “to the EADS technology”. And not only that, the following would also take part in their training: “Border guards who are deployed on the Yemeni border”. So yes? Has the federal government provided false and misleading information? We didn’t get a concrete answer to our query.

Jan van Aken was in Saudi Arabia in 2011 as a member of parliament for the left to get an idea of the deployment of the federal police. He demands an immediate end to the training mission.

Jan van Aken, International Crises Officer, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation: “Anyone who now decides in Germany to train border guards in this country in Saudi Arabia is making themselves complicit in all the crimes committed by these border guards. Nobody can nor claim that they don’t know what human rights violations are happening there in Saudi Arabia, everyone in Berlin knows that. Nevertheless, it was decided and I think that’s why this federal government is also complicit.”

Nancy Faeser’s Ministry of the Interior emphasizes that the training program is also about teaching human rights. But with what success?

Max Mutschler, Peace Research Institute BICC: “To also say this strategy, we do … we do deliveries, we do training and we also want to convey human rights that – if it was meant seriously at all – it failed colossally. That shows now the reports about the… about the massacres on the Saudi border.”

Reports of mass shootings of defenseless people. About people fleeing war and poverty. Reports that have also been known to the federal government for a long time. Because the United Nations already documented massive human rights violations in October last year:

Quote: “…Saudi security forces use sniper attacks on migrants in small groups and mortars or bombing on migrants in larger groups…”

Apparently none of this has any consequences. When Olaf Scholz traveled to the Gulf States last autumn, he was also accompanied by Guillaume Faury, the French CEO of Airbus. Since then, the federal government has continued to relax the restrictions on arms exports to Saudi Arabia. Criticism is also coming from within their own ranks.

Ralf Stegner (SPD), Member of the Bundestag: “As long as Saudi Arabia, as a bloodthirsty dictatorship, is involved in persecuting, torturing and killing refugees, it cannot be a partner for privileged cooperation, one cannot and should not deliver weapons there You don’t support training missions either. And to say that I teach human rights, unfortunately they are not applied there, is in any case not a position that is compatible with the fundamental values ​​on which we base our policy anyway.”

Basic values that apparently do not apply in Saudi Arabia.

Georg Restle: “Upon request, the Ministry of the Interior writes to us that they take the reports from Human Rights Watch very seriously. For the time being, however, they obviously want to stick to the training mission. The same applies to the energy partnership. Welcome to the shabby reality of international politics.”

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• ➡ ይህ ጉዳይ ለምን ዋናው ርዕስ አይደለም?!
• ➡ ይህ በቅርብ ጊዜ ካነበብኩት በጣም የሚረብሽና የማይታመነው ነገር ነው፣ እና እርሰዎ ስለ እሱ ብቻ በ“አለምአቀፍ” ክፍል ውስጥ ካሉት በደርዘን የሚቆጠሩ ሪፖርቶች እና በዚቢ አጭር መልእክት ብሎክ ላይ እንደ አስር ሰከንድ ልጥፍ ብቻ ያገኙታል???
• ➡ እኔም ያሰብኩት ይህን ነው።
• መልእክቱ በጣም የሚረብሽና የማይታመን ነው፤ እና መጀመሪያ እዚህ መፈለግ ነበረብኝ።
• ምንም ሀሳብ የለኝም፣ ግን በግልጽ እንደሚታየው የተወሰኑ የሰዎች ህይወት ምንም ዋጋ የለውም። በጣም አስከፊ ነገር ነው!
• ➡ እባካችሁ እርዱኝ ምን ዓይነት ጉድ እዚህ እያነበብኩ ነው? ለምንድነው ይህ በአለም አቀፍ ደረጃ በስፋት ያልተወራለት/ ያልተገለጸው? ኧረ ረሳሁት ገንዘብ አለምን እንድትዞር ያደርጋታልና ነው፤ አይደል!?
• ➡ በጣም አስፈሪ ጉዳይ ነው፤ እኛ ግን ቸል ብለን ወደ ሌላ አቅጣጫ እንመለከታለን ፣ መጀመሪያ ፖለቲከኞቻችን ።
• ➡… እንዲሁም ከኢትዮጵያ የመጡ ክርስቲያኖች ይሆናሉ! ለመጨፍጨፍ ይህ በቂ ምክንያት ነው ለሳውዲዎች።
• ➡ በሰብአዊነት ላይ የተፈጸመ ወንጀል፤ ማመን ያስቸግራል!
• ይቺ አለም በድርብ ባትበላ ኖሮ ሳውዲ አረቢያ በሄግ ተከሷት ማዕቀብም ይጣልባት ነበር።
• ➡ወንጀሉ በፖለቲከኞች ትእዛዝ እና በ “ድንበር ጠባቂዎች” ተከናውኗል።
• ➡ በፎርሙላ 1 ከዚህ ሀገር ውጡ።
• nutball ከዚህ ሀገር ውጣ።
• በኤኮኖሚ ማዕቀብ እና በሄግ ክስ የቀረበበት። እና በመጨረሻም ሳውዲ አረቢያን እና ባርነትን መዝግበዋል.
• ➡ ጩኸቱ የት አለ?
• አለም አቀፍ ውግዘቱ የት አለ?
• ማዕቀቦቹ የት አሉ?
• እንደ ሶሪያ፣ ሊቢያ ወይም ኒጀር ያለ ሌላ አገር እንዲህ ዓይነት ነገር ቢያደርግ ኖሮ ምላሹ ምን ሊሆን እንደሚችል አስቡት።
• ➡ ሳውዲ አረቢያ ወንበዴ ሀገር ናት ፣ ምንም መንገድ የለም ። ከእነዚህ ሰዎች ጋር ከገባህ ምንም ነገር መጠበቅ የለብህም። የሰው ልጆችን መናቅ የፕሮግራማቸው አካል ነው።
• ➡ ደግሞ እኮ ሳውዲዎች በተባበሩት መንግስታት የሰብአዊ መብቶች ምክር ቤት ውስጥ ተቀምጠዋል።
• ብራቮ ጀርመን እና ስለ ስኬታማው ሥልጠና እንኳን ደስ አለዎት!
• ➡ እንደዚህ አይነት አጋሮች ያሉት ሁሉ ጠላቶች አያስፈልጉትም።
• ➡ የአረብ ወታደሮችን እናሰለጥናለን፣ የስለላ ካሜራዎችን ደግሞ ለኢራን እንሸጣለን…የሴት የውጭ ጉዳይ ፖሊሲ…ከዚህ በላይ ግብዝነት የለም…አሳፋሪ ነው።
• ➡ የውጭ ጉዳይ ሚኒስትራችን የት ነው ያለችው? ወደ ሥነ ምግባር ስንመጣ ግን ምንጊዜም ቀዳሚ ነች።
• ➡ ከካሾጊ ጋር በጣም መጥፎ ነበር ማለት አለብኝ፣ ይህን ሳይ ግን እዚያ ሳውዲ ካሉት ሁሉም ጨካኝ ሳዲስቶች አንፃር፣ ራሴን ለመሳት ተቃርቤ ነበር።
• ➡ ነገር ግን እነዚህ ጥይቶች አዲስ የወንጀል ገጽታ ናቸው እና እያንዳንዱ እግር ኳስ ተጫዋች እራሱን በሳዑዲዎች እንዲበላሽ የሚያደርግ መጥፎ እና የማይገባ ትል ነው።
• ➡ እርግጥ ነው፣ የጀርመን መንግሥት ጥንቃቄ የተሞላበት ምላሽ እየሰጠ ነው። ለነገሩ እነዚህ ወደ አውሮፓ ህብረት መምጣት የማይችሉ ኢትዮጵያውያን ናቸው። ይህ በቅርብ ጊዜ በስደተኞች ፖሊሲ ላይ ለወጡት አዲስ ውሳኔዎች እንደ ስኬት ይቆጠራል
• ➡ ከነዳጅ ዘይት እንላቀቅ! የነዚህን ወንጀለኞች የነዳጅ ዘይት ለአንዴና ለመጨረሻ የምንተወበት ጊዜው አሁን ነው።

👉 Selected comments courtesy of: ‘Die Zeit’ (Germany – 160+ Comments) + ‘Der Standard’ (Austria – 560+ Comments):

• ➡ Why isn’t that the main headline?!
• ➡ That’s pretty much the most unbelievable thing I’ve read lately, and you only find out about it from one of dozens of other reports in the “International” section and as a ten-second post in the short message block of the ZIB???
• ➡ That’s exactly what I thought too.
• The message is unbelievable and I had to look for it here first.
• I have no idea, but apparently certain human lives are no longer worth anything. Just awful.
• ➡ Please what the hell am I reading here? Why isn’t this widely publicized internationally? Oh, I forgot, money makes the world go round.
• ➡ Just terrible and we look the other way, our politicians first.
• ➡ … and they will also be Christians from Ethiopia!
• Reason enough for the Saudis…
• ➡ This is a crime against humanity. Incredible!
• ➡ If this world weren’t consumed by double standards, Saudi Arabia would be accused in The Hague and sanctioned as well.
• ➡ Ordered by politicians and carried out by the “border guards”.
• ➡ Get Formula 1 out of this country.
• Get the nutball out of this country.
• Use economic sanctions and an indictment in the Hague. And finally release documents about Saudi Arabia and slavery.
• ➡ Where’s the outcry?
• Where is the international condemnation?
• Where are the sanctions?
• Imagine what the reaction would be if another country like Syria, Libya or Niger had done something like that.
• ➡ Saudi Arabia is a rogue state, there is no way around it. If you get involved with these people, you shouldn’t expect anything. Contempt for human beings is part of the program there, just like the destruction of all resistance.
• ➡ And the Saudis sit on the UN Human Rights Council.
• ➡ Whoever has such allies no longer needs enemies.
• ➡ We train Arab soldiers and sell surveillance cameras with facial recognition to Iran… Feminist foreign policy… it doesn’t get any more hypocritical… a shame
• ➡ I have to say that with Khashoggi it was really bad, in view of all the sadists who are at work there, I almost resigned myself to it.

• ➡ But these shootings are a new dimension of crime and every footballer who lets himself be corrupted by the Saudis is a bad, unworthy worm.

• ➡ Of course, the German government is reacting cautiously. After all, these are Ethiopians who can no longer come to the EU. This will be seen as a success for the new decisions on refugee policy recently.

• ➡ Bravo Germany and congratulations on the successful training 🤗
• ➡ Get out of oil! It is high time that we finally gave up the oil of these criminals.
• ➡ Where is our ‘feminist’ foreign minister? When it comes to morals, she’s always first.

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