The Saudi town of Awamiyah with historically Shia population has been effectively besieged by the government forces for over ten days following deadly clashes, with roadblocks blocking exits from the city and bulldozers razing homes, local eyewitnesses told RT.
The Saudi town of Awamiyah with historically Shia population has been effectively besieged by the government forces for over ten days following deadly clashes, with roadblocks blocking exits from the city and bulldozers razing homes, local eyewitnesses told RT.
While the visit of Donald Trump on Saturday to Saudi Arabia, which would be his first foreign visit as the 45th US president, gripped the attention of the international media, little has been reported about the plight of civilians in Awamiyah, a town in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province.
Some 25,000 residents of the town, most of them representing the country’s Shia minority, have been living in constant fear of being arrested, assaulted or killed since government troops raided the town twelve days ago in what they claimed was an anti-terrorist operation, a local resident who asked not to be named told media.
A 2-year-old boy and a Pakistani national were killed, and at least 14 people, including four policemen, were injured as a result of the raid in Awamiyah’sAlmosara neighborhood, the Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement last Friday.
