Alwaght- Saudi regime had killed some 430 migrants and wounded 650 more in cross-border shelling and shooting between January and April 2022, Human Rights Watch reported, adding Captured migrants were tortured and girls as young as 13 were raped.
The New York-based group released a report earlier this week that laid out a series of allegations of rights abuses by Saudi forces against migrants and asylum seekers in Yemen, including killings, torture, arbitrary detentions, and sexual abuse.
According to the International Organization for Migration, over 43,000 migrants are stranded throughout Yemen. Most migrants passing through Yemen come from Ethiopia, including refugees and asylum seekers fleeing an ongoing civil war that has killed thousands and displaced millions.
“Migrants transiting through Yemen are among the civilians most affected by the [Yemen] conflict,” the HRW report said, pointing to a 2021 attack by Saudi-led coalition against a retention center that left “scores of African migrants” dead.
Authors of the report Lama Faikh and Nadia Hardman said that in 2021, the UN Human Rights Council shuttered the only international and independent body probing abuses by parties in the Yemen conflict, following “heavy arm-twisting from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.”
They called on the UN to establish a monitoring and investigation mechanism to gather evidence of “possible war crimes by all sides.”
