The Human Rights Watch has said in a report that Saudi border guards have killed at least hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers who tried to cross the Yemen-Saudi border between March 2022 and June 2023.
The rights organization stressed in its report, released yesterday Monday, that “If committed as part of a Saudi government policy to murder migrants, these killings, which appear to continue, would be a crime against humanity.”
The 73-page report, “‘They Fired on Us Like Rain’: Saudi Arabian Mass Killings of Ethiopian Migrants at the Yemen-Saudi Border,” found that Saudi border guards have used explosive weapons to kill many migrants and shot other migrants at close range, including many women and children, in a widespread and systematic pattern of attacks.
