Once in a while, some single thing manages to encapsulate all that feels terrible about our world today.
For me, this week, it was a bone-chilling report from Human Rights Watch documenting how Saudi border guards had killed hundreds — perhaps thousands — of Ethiopians seeking to cross from Yemen into Saudi Arabia.
I realized what I thought were people sleeping around me were actually dead bodies.” There were bloodied corpses all around her.
Another survivor, a 17-year-old boy, described being forced by Saudi guards to rape two girls after another man who had been asked to do the same was executed for refusing.
In these reports from a remote corner of a distant desert, I saw a glimpse of the unrelenting cruelty that is our future.
Persons:
Hamdiya, Prince Mohammed bin Salman
Organizations:
Human Rights Watch, Saudi, Washington Post
Locations:
Saudi, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Istanbul