HRW said it based its report on witness testimony as well as 350 videos and photos of wounded and killed migrants, and satellite imagery showing the location of Saudi Arabian guard posts. The advocacy group said, however, its researchers were unable to access the stretch of the Yemen-Saudi border where the alleged killings took place.
DUBAI/HARAR, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Saudi Arabian border guards have killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants, including women and children, who attempted enter the kingdom along its mountainous border with Yemen, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday.
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"Trying to stop migration using the barrel of a gun is intolerable," UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told a briefing in New York, adding that the report raised "very serious allegations."
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