Saudi border guards fired like rain on Ethiopian migrants trying to cross into the Gulf kingdom from Yemen killing hundreds since last year Human Rights Watch HRW said in a report on Monday . The allegations described as unfounded by a Saudi government source point to a significant escalation of abuses along the perilous route from the Horn of Africa to Saudi Arabia .
HRW researcher Nadia Hardman said Saudi officials are killing hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers in this remote border area out of view of the rest of the world . The Houthi rebels who control northern Yemen alleged deliberate killings of immigrants and Yemenis by border guards in response to a letter from HRW .
Migrants said Houthi forces worked with people smugglers and would extort them or keep them in detention centres where they were abused until they could pay an exit fee . Other accounts described forced rape and beatings with rocks and iron bars . The HRW report draws from interviews with Ethiopian migrants who tried to cross the mountainous landscape and from satellite imagery videos and photos posted to social media or gathered from other sources .
All interviewees described scenes of horror women men and children strewn across the landscape severely injured dismembered or already dead it said . The report said . AllInterviewees describe scenes of horrors women men, children, and children . Women men and .
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