All executions are barbaric and Saudi Arabian executions - beheadings by the sword - are particularly barbaric.The taking away of human life is unjust, cruel, inhumane and sickening. To kill 47 prisoners as Saudi Arabia has done in recent days - announced to the world today - is human nature at its lowest. With the lone voice of a blogger I condemn it.
The Saudi authorities have declared the prisoners to have been "terrorists". I have no idea whether or not some of them were. Whether they were terrorists or not they should never have been executed. Terror is not the answer to terror.
At least one of those executed, the cleric Nimr al Nimr, by all accounts, was not a terrorist. He was a protestor against the Saudi monarchy. By all accounts, he rejected violence. He did not engage in it or support it. The barbaric killing of each and every one of these victims is heinous. The killing of Nimr al Nimr is particularly heinous.
Any government or dictator sanctioning capital punishment for any reason today should take stock of themselves and put an end to this crime against humanity. No-one who tolerates this practice at home can condemn it elsewhere.
Let 2016 be a new beginning when we say NO to State murder of any human being for any reason whatever.
The Saudi authorities have declared the prisoners to have been "terrorists". I have no idea whether or not some of them were. Whether they were terrorists or not they should never have been executed. Terror is not the answer to terror.
At least one of those executed, the cleric Nimr al Nimr, by all accounts, was not a terrorist. He was a protestor against the Saudi monarchy. By all accounts, he rejected violence. He did not engage in it or support it. The barbaric killing of each and every one of these victims is heinous. The killing of Nimr al Nimr is particularly heinous.
Any government or dictator sanctioning capital punishment for any reason today should take stock of themselves and put an end to this crime against humanity. No-one who tolerates this practice at home can condemn it elsewhere.
Let 2016 be a new beginning when we say NO to State murder of any human being for any reason whatever.
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