Saudi Arabia is neither worried nor worried – Tahrir

Without any international reaction, Riyadh does not seem threatened by the Human Rights Watch report, which was published on Monday. Disgusting impunity in a time of deadly migrations

Nor the angry tweet from Joe Biden, Ursula von der Leyen or Emmanuel Macron. Nor a scathing press release from the Quai d’Orsay, from British or European diplomacy. Just “Fears” Washington and advocacy “The Saudi authorities should conduct a thorough and transparent investigation.” Quoting a spokesman for the US State Department. Despite the scale and horrific atrocities committed by Saudi forces against Ethiopian migrants that Human Rights Watch revealed on Monday, the NGO’s report did not provoke the angry response one could have hoped for. This is clearly not an embarrassment to Riyadh. “The allegations in the Human Rights Watch report that Saudi border guards shot Ethiopians crossing the Saudi-Yemeni border are baseless and not based on reliable sources.” A Saudi government source was quoted by Agence France-Presse.

This is not the first denial by Saudi Arabia of these killings on its border with Yemen. Because the Human Rights Watch report does not constitute a complete disclosure, even if earlier serious alerts about these facts have gone relatively unnoticed. Last October, experts from ON