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4-When the Saud family took control of the sovereign, political, educational, and cultural decisions in Yemen, and framed the rulers of Yemen within the Saudi Special Committee, and paid their salaries, a lot of constant pressure was applied to all writings, newspapers, magazines, and universities that could produce something of the truth.
There are many writers who were disposed of articles, which exposed the Saudi regime and its crimes, were either deleted or banned from publication. Many Yemeni personalities who were resistant to the Saudi policy of subjugation were targeted with murder, creating problems for them, and fighting them in their jobs and businesses.
Here, I present the end of Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Wajeeh, who wrote in his academic theses about Asir and the Yemeni-Saudi conflict, and when he returned to Yemen he was prevented from obtaining a professor’s seat at Sana’a University. When the court ruled that he should have the seat, he was killed in mysterious circumstances along with his family members in a mysterious traffic accident.
Regarding the American position, we did not see it at the time as its star did not shine until after the Second World War. Regarding the British position, it certainly looked at the massacre with satisfaction and saw that it had achieved its colonial goals. Two British documents dealt with the massacre, sent by one of their officials, in which the UK reduced the number of pilgrims killed by those he named Wahhabi hardliners. But turning a blind eye to this horrific crime and not commenting on it politically indicates responsibility for the massacre.
What prompted Ibn Saud to commit this massacre against peaceful pilgrims, with unparalleled ugliness?
The Yemeni government at that time was resistant to Britain, and Imam Yahya Hamid al-Din refused to engage in the First World War with Britain against Turkey, although he was the one who led the Yemeni revolution against the Turkish occupation, because he saw that it is not permissible to support an infidel colonial state against an Islamic state, he refrained from participating, unlike Ibn Saud and the Sharif of Mecca. Then Britain tried to punish Yemen by occupying Hodeidah from 1918 to 1921, and then handing it over to its client Mohammed al-Idrisi.
From time to time, Imam Yahya sought to restore the occupied areas in the south of Yemen, and he used to make disturbing statements against Britain in this regard. At the same time, Ibn Saud was occupying parts of Asir of Yemen, and the Imam was asking him to evacuate it as it is a Yemeni land.
At that time, Britain was preparing Ibn Saud to be its first man and primary agent in the region, who would implement its disruptive and differentiating project, but it wanted him to carry out an acceptance test that would qualify him to be its man who could carry out any ugly thing it asked of him.
Since the Yemenis are deeply and historically connected with the Two Holy Mosques, Britain and Ibn Saud wanted to suppress any tendency of the Yemenis to support the Two Holy Mosques when the British and Saudis carry out their plan to seize the Two Holy Mosques for their new and main agent Ibn Saud.
This is what actually happened, as the Tanomah massacre took place in 1923, and the storming of the Two Holy Mosques by Ibn Saud with British support took place in 1924, after they succeeded in sending a savage and terrifying message to all Yemenis that go away from the Two Holy Mosques because we are coming to slaughter you, and kill you in this way that we killed pilgrims.
Therefore, Britain ordered Ibn Saud to carry out this crime, but at the hands of an ideological and Wahhabi military group called Al-Ghatghat, who saw in the general Muslims that they were polytheists and infidels who should be killed and their money looted, while seeing such heinous acts as a reward that can draw them closer to God.
How did the Imam of Yemen react to this massacre?
Unfortunately, the plan by Britain and Ibn Saud was to commit the massacre and blame a third party, which the Yemeni government could not reach. As soon as the crime occurred, Ibn Saud sent a letter disavowing the crime, and that he had nothing to do with it.
The Imam asked Ibn Saud to sentence the killers according to God’s judgment, considering that they were among his soldiers who were under his command, and the Imam hoped that retribution would be taken from them, but Ibn Saud, being the one who ordered the massacre, eluded at the beginning and promised that the issue would be resolved.
The imam at that time was suffering from some internal rebellions, and was busy building his new state, but as soon as Ibn Saud’s military and economic position became strong, he openly turned on the imam and began to address him disrespectfully in his correspondence.
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