Rachel Blevins
Saudi Arabia, a close United States ally despite its horrible human rights record, has now gone from slaughtering innocent civilians in other nations to slaughtering innocent civilians in its own nation—and the U.S. is responding by continuing to provide the regime with an arsenal of weapons.
Reports coming out of Awamiyah, a city in Saudi Arabia’s eastern province, have included accounts of civilian deaths, water and electricity being shut off, and entire neighborhoods being destroyed—all at the hands of the Saudi Regime.
This type of treatment began in 2011, when hundreds of Saudi military tanks were sent to the region, which is heavy in oil production, claiming it was solely as a show of force to the government in the neighboring country of Bahrain.
Saudi military forces have escalated tensions over the last week, and their destruction of the historic al-Mosara district—an area many opposition fighters have used as a refuge—has led to reports of at least eight civilian deaths, one of which occurred as Saudi Police opened fire on a bus transporting civilians out of the city.
According to the Middle East Eye news portal, activists on the ground are reporting that residents have been “driven out of their homes, while their property has been confiscated by private development firms,” and that Saudi military forces have been “firing randomly at homes and cars in Awamiyah, destroying or setting fire to several houses and shops.”
In addition to killing innocent civilians at random and torturing citizens of Awamiyah by destroying their homes and taking away their water and electricity, the Saudi regime has also tormented the region by holding mass executions for individuals who are convicted of “protesting” the government.
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