WE CONDEMN THE BARBARIC EXECUTION OF SIX SOMALIS BY SAUDI ARABIA!

 By Tecola Hagos

Editorial: We condemn the barbaric execution of six Somalis by the government of Saudi Arabia under its primitive legal system. The six Somalis were executed because they allegedly robbed a handful of taxi drivers. A human life is worth more than all the taxis driven in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Government is one of the most corrupt and human rights violators in the World. It is a shame to all nations that such a government of is tolerated and accepted as a member of the United Nations. After all, the Saudi Government is not much more of a family-holding than a responsible government as part of the community of nations of the world. The types of international crimes committed by the Government of Saudi Arabia against millions of people in Africa and in the Arab World are immeasurable. The Saudi Government made it possible for the Government of the United States to attack and destroy Iraq hurting and killing millions of Iraqis unnecessarily; whereas, there would have been a better way to solve the danger paused by another brutal and savage government of Saddam Hussein. The Saudi Government sustained Western economies by manipulating the price of oil. The Saudi �Royal� Family and their associates have deposits of billions of dollars or equivalent in Western banks and billions in treasury bonds of Western governments, ever financing the economies of Great Britain, France, United States et cetera at the cost of the well being of Arabs and non-Western nations in Africa.

During the oil embargo, after the 1967 Israel-Arab conflict, the Saudi Government extracted from poor African nations, nations that supported the Arab cause, billions of dollars due to predatory pricing of oil, without any consideration of the many problems facing such poor countries. The Saudi Government, although rich with oil wealth, did not assist starving African nations in times of their greatest suffering. The Saudi Government is not a friend of African nations or people. Despite the fact that Saudis are a result of centuries of admixture of African �slaves,� which admixture includes some members of the Saudi Royal Family, the Saudi Government has now executed six Somalis, who are after all distant blood ancestors, because they allegedly robbed a handful of taxi drivers. I can imagine the type of torture inflicted on those poor Somalis by the notorious security and police forces of the Saudi Government. If the crime of misappropriation or theft is the type of crime that is being punished by the Saudi Government, maybe they should have started such brutal execution with those who have stashed billions of dollars in foreign banks than murdering poor people on alleged robbery. How about the �Royal� Saudi families who have been diverting billions of dollars or equivalent into their own private bank accounts through self-serving schemes of so called business contract awards. The �Royal� families have amassed incredible fortune that truly belongs to the Arabs and the World at large. Here is a legitimate case ripe for investigation and possible criminal charges against numerous members of the �Royal� Family!  

People of the African Continent and the Arab world must recognize the treachery and betrayal of the Saudi Government, at least for the period after the Second World War. They have strangled Islam from its natural development into a compassionate and peaceful religion. [A fair reading of the Qur�an suggests such enlightened development.] Instead, through Wahabism, they have led the faithful in the path of barbarism and brutality where women are completely oppressed, where the most basic individual human rights are violated every single day, and where brutal and savage punishments are delivered on alleged criminals under the most corrupted legal process where torture is routinely used to extract confessions from alleged criminals. In addition, in front of the world community, they have dishonored all Arabs because of their groveling in front of Western powers, by prostrating themselves in a most undignified manner through their �spokesmen� on television and other media outlets. In a most dishonorable turnabout, the Saudi Government has executed, in the most brutal and barbaric manner, non-Westerners including Moslems for robbery and other crimes. There is no question that the Saudi Government is a black blot on the conscience of humanity everywhere. The Saudi Government must be stopped from continuing its brutality and savagery against fellow Africans and others. We call on all Africans and the people of the World to condemn the Government of Saudi Arabia for its acts of savagery and brutality against Somali Citizens.

Tecola W. Hagos

April 18, 2008