De wereld kijkt weg van de vreselijke genocide die Saoedi-Arabië in buurland Jemen op de sjiitische bevolking uitvoert, ‘logisch’ dus dat er al helemaal geen aandacht is voor de etnische zuivering van sjiieten die S-A in eigen land uitvoert……… Terwijl deze uitgevoerd wordt met westerse wapens, o.a. uit Groot-Brittannië en Canada……..

Van onze disfunctionerende PvdA minister van Buitenlandse Zaken hoven we niets te verwachten, zoals hij hooguit z’n grote bek opentrekt als er weer een leugen over Rusland en/of Syrië wordt gepubliceerd in de reguliere media……….

Dat Saoedi-Arabië Jemen in een hongersnood heeft gestort en daar een cholera uitbraak heeft veroorzaakt, waardoor je intussen ronduit over een genocide tegen de sjiitische bevolking kan spreken (alles met feiten onderbouwt), interesseert Koenders en de rest van het inhumane, ijskoude neoliberale kabinet Rutte 2 geen barst……. Geld verdienen in het geval van S-A staat op nummer 1, genocide en mensenrechten komen ergens na nummer 20…….. (kijk als het om Rusland zou gaan, waren de rapen gaar geweest…..)

Hier een artikel van Middle East Eye, gisteren op Anti-Media gepubliceerd:

Saudi
Bulldozers Flatten Populated Town as Residents Flee Carnage

August
4, 2017 at 8:47 am

Written
by Middle
East Eye

Hundreds
of Shia Muslims in Awamiya are forced from their homes amid fighting
and compulsory evictions.

(MEE) — The
Saudi government has been forcibly relocating residents of the
restive city of Awamiya as clashes continue between soldiers and
militant groups in the old city.

Hundreds
of people have fled or been evacuated from Awamiya since the
beginning of the current troubles which have killed at least seven
people, including two police officers. According to al-Hayat
newspaper, the government received requests from residents and
farmers around Awamiya to help them flee the violence.

However,
activists say that residents have been driven out of their homes and
their properties seized by private development companies, primarily
in and around the historic Almosara district.

An
image sent to Middle East Eye by an Awamiya activist showed a
requisition order pinned to a house in the district of al-Shweikah,
about 6km south of Almosara.

The
order is apparently issued by the Albarahim private property
developer, but it also contains a stamp from the National Joint
Counterterrorism Command (NJCC), a body formed in 2003 following
attacks by al-Qaeda militants in the country.

The
document shows a list of requirements that residents can bring to the
local authorities in order to be relocated.

Awamiya
has long been a flashpoint for protests by Saudi’s Shia minority –
the influential cleric Nimr al-Nimr, who was executed by the Saudi
government in 2016, came from the town and demonstrations and unrest
has been frequent.

Al-Hayat
quoted Falah al-Khalidi, the governor of Qatif province, as saying
contracts had been signed “for a number of furnished apartments in
the city of Dammam to shelter those interested in leaving
neighbourhoods near Almosara”.

However,
according to social media reports and activists, many of those
displaced have yet to be rehoused.

“What
I see from the first day there is a collective punishment… there is
a plan for forced displacement,” said Ameen Nemer, a Saudi activist
originally from Awamiya. “It
doesn’t matter where these people will end up.”

He
told MEE that the depopulation and destruction of the town was
ultimately politically motivated, rather than driven by development
or terrorism.

“It
has nothing to do with Almosara and development, it has to do with
punishing this town for being vocal for calling for rights, calling
for reforms since 2011.”

Firing
randomly

Confirming
precise details about the situation in Qatif has long been difficult
due to tight controls over media scrutiny imposed by the Saudi
authorities.

Reuters
reported earlier this year that foreign media could visit the area
only if they accompanied by government officials, purportedly for
safety reasons.

Information
has largely come from either Saudi government press releases, local
activists, or Shia-focused news sites.

Local
activists accuse security forces of driving residents out of Awamiya
by firing randomly towards homes and cars as they confront armed men
in the area, charges Saudi Arabia denies.

They
said several houses and shops have been burned or damaged by the
fighting.

Much
of the city has been left without electricity, water, rubbish
collection or fire services. Private generators have been badly
damaged by shooting and those remaining in the city face intense
summer heat without air conditioning.

Although
local committees have been set up to try to maintain some services,
it is becoming increasing difficult for many residents to stay in the
city.

Andrew
Hammond, a consultant on Middle East politics, said that the emptying
of Awamiya could be part of a strategy to enact demographic change in
the disruptive Shia region of Saudi Arabia.

“It
fits that pattern,” he told MEE. “It’s something that’s
happened in the Gulf, in Bahrain, it’s something that’s happened
outside the Gulf in Israel-Palestine.

“I
think it would make sense to analyse it in that way.”

He
added that the fighting also worked as a “useful diversion” from
the political unrest in the Saudi palace following the supplanting of
former crown prince Mohammed bin Nayef with the current king’s
youthful son Mohammed bin Salman.

“That’s been
more complex than I think they would have hoped for – I think
there’s been some resistance to it, there’s nervousness about how
much irritation there is with what happened to the extent that [bin
Nayef] didn’t leave the country in recent weeks when he was meant
to leave the country,” he explained.

“So
I think there’s this political tension in the country at the
moment, and it’s always this fight with the Shia that functions
usefully for them in that sense.”

Foreign
arms controversy

Last
week, Canada announced it would be investigating possible use of its
equipment in the operations in Qatif, following a report in the Globe
and Mail that light armoured vehicles sold by Canada to Saudi Arabia
had been involved in the clashes.

A
spokesman indicated that the Canadian foreign minister, Chrystia
Freeland, was “deeply concerned about this situation and has asked
officials to review it immediately”.

“If
it is found that Canadian exports have been used to commit serious
violations of human rights, the minister will take action,” said
spokesman John Babcock.

The
controversial $13bn contract to supply Riyadh with light armoured
vehicles was struck by the previous Conservative government in
Canada.

Trudeau’s
Liberal government has had to defend this contract against criticism
that it may have violated Canada’s export control rules that bar
arms exports to countries with a poor human rights record and that
prohibit using these weapons against civilians.

Other
governments, including the UK and US, have yet to comment on the
situation in Qatif.

The
UK government, one of Saudi’s closest allies, has approved at least
194 export licences for arms and related equipment to Saudi Arabia
since March 2015, worth more than $4.3bn. Among the products bought
are guns, crowd control and anti-riot equipment.

The
British Foreign Office refused to answer questions about the
situation in Awamiya and whether there was any investigation into the
use of British equipment.

A
spokesman said: “The UK operates one of the most robust export
control regimes in the world and we keep our defence exports to Saudi
Arabia under careful and continual review.” (ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! GB levert zelfs clusterbommen aan S-A!!)

MEE
and Agencies /
Republished with permission / Middle
East Eye / Report
a typo