{"id":453926,"date":"2023-07-10T04:58:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T08:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=453926"},"modified":"2023-07-10T04:58:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T08:58:54","slug":"dozens-of-ethiopian-migrants-killed-by-saudi-border-guards-in-2023-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/453926","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of Ethiopian migrants killed by Saudi border guards in 2023: Report\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At least 75 Ethiopian migrants have been killed by Saudi border guards between January to April 2023, through artillery shelling or sniper shots, the Mixed Migration Center (MMC) a global network engaged in data collection, research, analysis and policy programmatic development on mixed migration disclosed last week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MMC disclosed the killings were committed by Saudi border guards on Ethiopian migrants using Yemen as a transit point to smuggle themselves to the Gulf Kingdom. The report stated another 226 Ethiopian migrants have been injured by the Saudi border guards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quoting witness statements, MMC reported that in one day alone 40 Ethiopian migrants were killed by Saudi police which fired weapons in migrants that throw stones on Saudi police.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The MMC reported up to 10,000 arrivals mostly Ethiopians arrive in Yemen\u2019s shores every month for the last decade, despite Yemen being in the midst of a brutal war.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mixed Migration Center report further criticized the near-complete silence of international community on the routine killings of Ethiopian migrants by Saudi border guards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Estimates suggest thousands of Ethiopians are trafficked to the Arabian Peninsula via Djibouti and Somalia to war-torn Yemen and Saudi Arabia every year, risking imprisonment and killings along the way.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 75 Ethiopian migrants have been killed by Saudi border guards between January to April 2023, through artillery shelling or sniper shots, the Mixed Migration Center (MMC) a global network engaged in data collection, research, analysis and policy programmatic development on mixed migration disclosed last week.\u00a0 MMC disclosed the killings were committed by Saudi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":453927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[5845],"class_list":["post-453926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/download.jpg?fit=298%2C169&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1U5o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453928,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453926\/revisions\/453928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}