00:00 This rare footage captures the hell faced by those trying to cross from Yemen to Saudi
00:06 Arabia, as filmed by the migrants themselves.
00:10 This man has serious injuries in the legs and in the back.
00:18 This woman's arm is wounded.
00:22 And a man called Elias lost his leg to an explosive round of ammunition.
00:28 Inside Al Jumori hospital a cargo container is filled with at least four corpses.
00:34 Those still standing don't have access to medicine or supplies.
00:41 This is far from the worst of it.
00:43 Human Rights Watch interviewed dozens of witnesses who testified that Saudi Arabian border guards
00:49 are carrying out massacres.
00:54 I saw people killed in a way I have never imagined.
00:57 I saw 30 people killed on the spot.
01:03 Between March 2022 and June 2023, Saudi guards are alleged to have killed hundreds, if not
01:09 thousands of people trying to cross into the country, nine out of ten of them being Ethiopian.
01:16 These satellite photos taken in February 2022 and released by Human Rights Watch show 12
01:22 hastily prepared graves in the mountains near the border.
01:25 By June this year, there were six times that number, 72.
01:34 We found that Saudi border guards had used explosive weapons and shot people at close
01:39 range including women and children.
01:43 The mass murder is systematic and ongoing, according to Human Rights Watch.
01:47 This research is important because while Saudi Arabia is trying to play an even bigger role
01:52 on the international stage and is intent on whitewashing and sports washing its image
01:56 internationally, it is simultaneously firing explosive weapons at unarmed civilians.
02:05 In 2017, the kingdom expanded its so-called Saudization policy to prioritise Saudi employees
02:11 over expatriates, while undertaking a vast deportations campaign.
02:17 Human Rights Watch is adamant that if Riyadh gave the order to kill these migrants, it
02:21 would undoubtedly constitute a crime against humanity.
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