The Issue of al-Ramis or the Issue of a Country or Citizens ?

THE  COMMITTEE   FOR  THE  DEFENSE  OF  HUMAN  RIGHTS  IN

THE  ARABIAN  PENINSULA

DATE  : 26 / 09/ 2002  

 NO  : 118/ H / 2002 

The people of Arabian Peninsula are lived under the rule of a gang of robbers since the Adul Aziz Bin Saud has ruled the Arabian Peninsula. Those robbers are the rulers of Saudi Arabia who consider the people of the Arabian Peninsula as slaves without any rights and will.

These rulers imagine they possess people and land and see that they have the right to act freely of them , when , where and how they want.

The corrupt family of Al-Sa'ud divided the country among them and began to handle of the blood and perspiration of citizens and the wealth of country.

Al-Ramis land is a historical property for Awwamiyah people but the Minister of Defense the Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz tried to deny people their right to possess this land and blunder the livelihood of the poor and the oppressed people.

Before several days , the people of Awwamiyah surprised when they saw two land companies began to fill up with earth some parts of the sea in al-Ramis land in the north of al-Qatif city.

The works of filling up were done under the order of Prince Sultan Bin Adul Aziz who claimed the possession of this land in 1995 when the people at that time saw big plaques around the borders of the land for the Prince.

The operations of filling up the sea were backed with security forces to restrain any reaction from the angry people.

The village of Awwamiyah and the neighboring regions witnessed several peaceful protests and strikes for that illegal measures, and accordingly scores of people were arrested, among them (Sheikh Nemir Baqir al-Labbad) who have been released later, but some other people are still held , they are :

1.                  Salman Mohmmad al-Zwairi, 47, sailor.

2.                  Yousif al-Marhoon, 26, university student.

3.                  Hussein al-Barraki, 33, sailor.

4.                  Hussein Ali al-Qattan, 35, sailor.

5.                  Isa Salih al-Labbad, 65, blind man.

6.                  Ahmad al-Barraki, 42, sailor.

7.                  Ja'far al-Marhoon, 24, free job.

8.                  Abdullah Nasir al-Rebh, 40, sailor.

9.                  Ahmed Salih al-Mabyook, 35, sailor.

And others we don't have information about them.

It is worth mentioning that on 13. June 1995 the oil company (ARAMCO) backed with security forces destroyed a lot of agricultural lands in al-Ramis district resulted much damage for lands estimated their losses about two millions of Saudi Rials , then clashes broke out with the security forces leaving scores of injured people.

The Saudi regime had many attempts to seize that land since 1953, but it failed.

It is worth to point out to similar cases. For example, in al-Omran district in al-Hulailah village in Ihsaa, the prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz took by force some lands called now (Sultanah) and built some palaces and gardens on them. The owners of those lands refused to sell them to him , so that his followers urged them of high prices but the farmers refused, then the prince met the farmers and threatened them.

In Qatif, the Saudi regime has seized agricultural lands between Jaroudiyah village and the Ojam village for the benefit of the Princess (Sarah Bint Khalid) and then she sold those lands to land companies.

Also the case of Dammam graveyard in the middle of the city which have been demolished on order of the dictator of Eastern Province (Mohammad Bin Fahd) who sold them as lands.

In 1996  a member of the royal family (the Prince Mus'ab Bin Adul Aziz) seized a big land in al – Mubarraze city and sold it to another person.

The programme of damaging the agricultural and sea environment in Eastern Province have begun before three decades in which the Saudi regime still filling up big spaces of sea and damaging a lot of agricultural lands and then granted them for princes and princesses who sold them for other investors and brokers.

The case of al – Ramis represents the defense of a country which means neutralization a plot in which  the dictator rulers try to plunder all the country and its wealth and damaging its natural resources.

It is not only the responsibility of Awwamiyah people to defend their land but it is also the responsibility of the people of Arabian Peninsula to do that .