Demand the UN strongly condemns Saudi Arabia for its recent mass execution

Saudi Arabia executed 47 people in what amounts to the biggest mass execution in over 35 years. This is really the tip of the iceberg for a regime that holds a dismal human rights record but represents everything that is wrong with Saudi Arabia.

Political dissent leads to death- there is no room for robust debate or any sort of opinion that the Royals may not agree with, woman are not allowed to drive, or do anything without their “minders” permission and the Shia minority will always be oppressed - as the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent Shia cleric who was a vocal critic of the regime so eloquently points out. It was his criticism of a corrupt regime that got him executed.

Saudi Arabia has been beheading those that they accuse of accused of “abandoning Islam” for decades – the young Palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh is still scheduled to be executed for this “crime”. But many of the executed over the last few decades have been migrant slave workers from South Asia who have constructed the Gulf region’s palaces, malls, museums, sports stadiums and other architectural marvels.

Despite this, Saudi Arabia is almost the darling of the Western world. After the announcement of these executions were made in 2015 the Prime Minister of England, David Cameron supported the successful Saudi bid for the chairmanship of the UN Human Rights Council. The mind boggles at how Saudi Arabia even got a seat in the council, never mind chairmanship of a key HRC panel. Although I have a pretty good idea.

I suspect it may be because we have kept silent, no one is standing up to Saudi Arabia. After the executions not one world leader from the West spoke out. U.S. President Barack Obama, UK Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande said more through their silence than they could have ever done by public condemnation, however. Not offending Saudi Arabia is more important than being a living and working example of the hypocrisy of the West.

Edmund Burke -
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

Over the last year, the Saudi regime has stepped up its executions, in some cases crucifying the decapitated victims and leaving their body to rot on public display. And if this latest mass execution is anything to go by, they have set the precedent for a year of even more bloodshed, more than we have ever seen.

The question, however, is where are all the good men? When and where will someone stand up?

The answer is us, and now.

For too long the world has kept silent, for too long Saudi Arabia has disregarded international law, and flaunted its immunity to any sort of backlash. This stops now.

Ban Ki-moon, I remind you of the charter signed on the 10th of December 1948 - The united nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The charter hat was to be “a vision of what the world should be.”

This vision lies in tatters, trampled and spat upon by one of your newest members in the Human Rights Council. This stinks of Hypocrisy and it is a slap the face of all those oppressed and murdered at the hands of the Saudi Royals. It's the slap in the face of Human Rights activists- those who work to make the world a better place, us ordinary people and its a slap in the face of the very people who founded the United Nations, and the Human Rights Council.

Ban Ki-moon, it is not too late, and the world awaits some sort of condemnation of Saudi Arabia’s most recent actions.
In fact we are done waiting, we demand that you, as the Secretary-General of the United Nations stand up and set the precedent of what we expect good men to do.

We are all good men and woman, and we demand that Ban Ki-moon sets a new standard for a new year - we will not stand idly by while innocents are slaughtered for political reasons, we will not be silent anymore.

Sign this petition with me and let us be the good men that don’t allow evil to flourish.

Ban Ki-moon, we demand you publicly condemn this mass execution and ask that the West does the same.