2024-05-14 08:30:19
The flagship project of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman cannot suffer from any rebellion from residents who do not wish to evacuate the land, at the risk of losing their lives there.
According to information from the BBC, relayed by Courrier Internationalthe ” futuristic desert city », Neom, would have used force to quell any rebellion. In fact, “the“Saudi authorities authorized the use of lethal force.” Enough to dissuade previous residents who had the misfortune of being on the plot dedicated to the project.
It is thanks to the testimony of a former Saudi colonel, Rabih Alenezi, now in exile in England for a year, let the information reach us. Indeed, the directive was reportedly communicated in April 2020 to kill “anyone who resists” during the evacuation of the village of Al-Khoraybah. Inhabited largely by the Huwaitat tribe, the Saudi authorities claim that this is an ethnic group with many rebels. So, in order to ensure order and discipline at the time of this mission, the choice of radical measures was made to guarantee cooperation in this maneuver.
A video was filmed of this evacuation, highlighting Abdul Rahim Al-Huwaiti, one of the village’s residents. Published just before the assault on social networks, he wanted to highlight his refusal to leave his property. According to the orders given, he then found death for his opposition.
Among the information in the BBCbased on sources from the UN and the London-based Saudi Human Rights Organization (ALQST), “ at least forty-seven other villagers were detained after resisting the eviction order.”
One death would therefore be deplored in this assault, and more than six thousand people displaced as well as many prisoners suffered from the event.
« Several were arrested simply for publicly expressing their grief” regrets ALQST. Al-Huwaiti’s death may not be the only one. Indeed, while forty prisoners are still locked up today, five are threatened with execution.
Yet, as presented to the public, these lands were a “ perfectly blank canvas “. Enough to embellish reality to allow the legitimate implementation of the titanic project The Line. The planned structure was to measure 170 kilometers long by 500 meters high. Of such importance that we struggle to imagine.
The BBC obtains additional information with difficulty, explaining that “ displaced villagers are extremely reluctant » to speak to foreign media. An additional difficulty which complicates the description and denunciation of their conditions.
However, a few other Saudis spoke out about the major works for Vision-2030. With notice sometimes of less than a month, “ more than a million people have been displaced » to allow the creation of “ an opera, a sports district, luxury shops and housing “. Lavish projects which cannot worry about the conditions of the most deprived.
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