A Saudi Arabian senior security official – who fled to London – has lifted the lid on the sinister side of the kingdom’s £400 billion megacity called Neom.
Rabih Alenezi, who had worked for the security service for 20 years, alleges he was told to ‘kill’ people refusing to be relocated to make room for The Line, part of the eco-project.
It is reported that more than 6,000 people have been evicted from their homes in the Gulf, with harrowing repercussions for those who refuse to obey orders.
One of the villagers protesting against all the ongoing evictions was subsequently gunned down, according to the BBC.
Col Alenezi, who sought asylum in the UK after claiming to have been ordered to carry out human rights violations, told the BBC that orders stated that ‘whoever continues to resist [eviction] should be killed, so it licensed the use of lethal force against whoever stayed …