Yemeni expatriates have to borrow money from others or sell a plot of land or livestock in order to pay for their travel costs to Saudi Arabia. Some people resort to mortgaging their property so that they can meet travel costs to Saudi Arabia, thinking that they would return back with money that could change the reality of their lives, especially in such miserable conditions under a merciless aggression and a suffocating siege that has been going on for more than eight years, resulting in a catastrophic humanitarian situation in Yemen.
Abdullah Hasan Saeed and his companion Mohammed Al-Ba’adani are Yemeni expatriates who decided to escape from the hardship and poverty that Yemenis are experiencing in their own country.
However, the misery they escaped from met them at the Saudi border in its worst form. They crossed the borders looking for work in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi border guards caught them and detained them in a narrow room; the number of detainees in the room was almost 40 people.
They began to torture them brutally, splashing so much water on them till it covered their feet. Then they turned on the electricity and threw electric wires into the water that covered the detainees’ feet. Everyone in the narrow-cramped room was shocked with electricity. Most of them were electrocuted, while some others shriveled and burned.
A few people of African nationality could survive. They carried the charred bodies, including 7 Yemenis, and arrived at the Republican Hospital in Sa’adah. Some of those who tried to escape were unluckily shot dead by the Saudi border guards. Only two Yemenis were able to escape: one of them was chased and killed by the Saudi soldiers; and the other could escape to Al-Raqu area; he is the only survivor.
After the heinous massacre committed by the Saudi border soldiers, they loaded the corpses onto a truck and dumped them in the nearby valley. The African immigrants who survived the massacre carried the bodies of seven Yemenis to the Republican Hospital in Sa’adah.
The families of the victims of this horrible massacre hold the United Nations and human rights organizations responsible for this, demanding that an investigation into the crime must be carried out and the perpetrators must be prosecuted.
