A report by Human Rights Watch outlines reports of killings of refugees trying to cross into Saudi from Yemen
Refugees from the Tigray region of Ethiopia: many Ethiopian try to cross into Saudi Arabia from Yemen Photograph: Marwan Ali/PAOver a recent 15-month period Saudi border guards have regularly opened fire on Ethiopian refugees crossing into the kingdom from Yemen, killing hundreds of men, women and children, according to a report from Human Rights Watch .
The authoritative HRW records dozens of harrowing witness testimonies of mass slaughters, describing as “widespread and systematic” the killings which “may amount to” crimes against humanity. The Saudis deny the claims as “not based on reliable sources”, but the BBC and New York Times have corroborated testimonies as have UN rapporteurs, the Mixed Migration Centre. The BBC has evidence the killings are continuing.
One 14-year-old girl, “Hamdiya”, told the HRW: “We were fired on repeatedly. I saw people killed in a way I have never imagined. I saw 30 killed people on the spot. I pushed myself under a rock and slept there...I woke up and I was alone.” The report estimates the death toll between March 2022 and June 2023 in the hundreds but says that it could be in the thousands.
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