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| A
Typical
Weekly Beheading
In Saudi
Arabia (Photo:
Saudi Insitute) |
The Saudi Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia
brutally slaughtered
like sheep six
young Somali men
without due process
of law in the
port city of Jeddah
last Friday of
April first 2005.
The Interior ministry
said that the
Somalis were caught
while in the process
of robbery and
piracy in which
they wanted to
seize a Taxi but
the Saudi government
had failed to
produce any hard
evidence in this
regard or allow
the young Somali
men to have access
to legal representation.
It is not clear
what legal procedures
or justice system
the Saudis had
applied because
in accordance
with Islam, you
cannot kill people
without due process
of law and you
cannot certainly
execute people
on unproven and
dubious grounds.
In the cases of
robbery etc, the
death penalty
does not apply
on Islamic jurisprudence.
So it will be
interesting to
know what justice
systems the Saudi
state had applied
to finish off
the young Somalis.
Somalis at home
and around the
globe were saddened
and dismayed by
the cruel and
heartless action
taken by the Saudi
state against
6 Somali men who
were virtually
refugees in Saudi
Arabia.
To conclude, the
Saudi state must
give believable
explanations as
to why they executed
the 6 Somali youths
without fair and
open trial. Similarly,
the Saudis must
alter their aggressive
and merciless
policies against
the Somali people
who happen to
be in their country
for whatever reason
otherwise relations
between the two
peoples and nations
will be severely
damaged. This
does not mean
that the law should
be overlooked
but the manner
in which the Saudi
police and the
security apparatus
behave and deal
with foreigners
is most barbaric,
uncivilised and
utterly inhumane
to say the least.
If I were the
president of Somalia,
I would have severed
all relations
with the Saudi
government until
they apologised
and changed their
bad treatments
against the Somali
people. The Saudis
must understand
the values of
human dignity,
the importance
of God given life
and the sacrosanct
of God's justice.
Hassan S. Shirwa
E-mail: hassheek@yahoo.co.uk
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