Border Holocaust: Saudi Arabia accused of recruiting Yemenis, including children, through human trafficking networks

Saudi Arabia is luring Yemeni fighters, including children, through human trafficking networks to fight on its southern border with Yemen without legal cover, the Sam rights and freedoms organization said.

Thousands of Yemenis who had to go to fight there under the pressure of poor humanitarian conditions and were killed or wounded were treated by Saudi Arabia as if they were not there, she said in a report titled "Border Holocaust."

The organization explained that what is happening in the border is a violation of domestic laws and international conventions that prohibit the use of civilians to fight with a state, outside the frameworks of domestic military laws.

She pointed out that although Saudi Arabia is working to number the fighters as soldiers and give some of the military ranks, they are in fact more like soldiers and officers described as illusory, and do not have any rights after their death as a result of the battles.

The organization pointed out that thousands of Yemeni victims killed in battles to defend the southern border of Saudi Arabia, were buried in graves inside the kingdom without the knowledge of their families, and that others are still their families do not know their fate.

According to Sam, some fighters enter Saudi territory from the outlet of the deposit under an emergency travel document issued to them by the Yemeni consulate. These victims fight on the southern border of Saudi Arabia and receive irregular salaries.

She added that every time they receive salaries, they also receive fake ranks, based on the salary estimate, once, and in the subsequent statements can raise the rank or fall, and when they demand a license to be treated in the Saudi port as illegal infiltrators, recorded The Saudi authorities electronically fingerprint them, and are then barred from entering the kingdom even if they get an official visa.

Saudi Arabia and the Yemeni government demanded an immediate end to the involvement of Yemeni youth in the Holocaust, and to grant them a status inconsistent with international laws and conventions.