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Canada Registers Concern with Saudi over Armored-Vehicle Use in Shia Town

Canada Registers Concern with Saudi over Armored-Vehicle Use in Shia Town
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Canada's Trudeau government reached out to Saudi Arabia and Western allies to register unease over Riyadh's apparent use of Canadian armored vehicles against its own citizens, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland stated.

Canada Registers Concern with Saudi over Armored-Vehicle Use in Shia Town

"We've expressed our concerns ... to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia," the Minister said Monday during a teleconference.

Prompted by a report from The Globe and Mail, Canada is in the middle of an investigation into videos and photos emerging from Saudi Arabia that show armored vehicles made by Terradyne Armored Vehicles of Newmarket, Ont., being deployed by Saudi forces against Shia population in the kingdom's Eastern Province.

However, the Saudi government does not respond well to outside questions about its internal behavior. Any effort by Canadian officials to query Riyadh over the Terradyne incident or raise it publicly with European allies could strain ties.

Over the past three months, the Saudi regime has been leading a heavy military crackdown against the Shia population of Awamia, a town in the eastern Qatif region.

The Saudi troops began destroying al-Mosawara under the pretext of ‘developing' the area.

The Riyadh regime claims al-Mosawara has become a hideout for "militants," who are behind attacks on security forces in Eastern Province, but locals and the United Nations say the regime is after erasing cultural heritage in the Shia town and redeveloping the area.

The Saudi military have martyred dozens of people in the town over the past three months.

Source: The Globe and Mail, Edited by website team

 

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