Killing should be no surprise

I was amazed at the fuss made over the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

No doubt Saudi Arabia were amazed as well as they execute people right, left and centre and nobody cares.

People forget the depths of barbarity this fundamentalist country imposes on its people.

For example, Indonesian migrant domestic worker Tuti Tursilawati was executed by Saudi Arabia earlier this month. Shockingly, Saudi Arabia did not notify Tursilawati’s family or Indonesian officials about the execution.

Tursilawati was found guilty of killing her employer in 2011. Indonesian advocacy group Migrant Care said in September that the mum-ofone had been defending herself from being raped.

Her execution and the ensueing diplomatic row are now sparking calls for Jakarta to scrap a workers’ deal it has with Riyadh. This is not the first time an Indonesian migrant worker has been executed by the Saudis, nor is it the first time the Saudis have failed to notify the worker’s family and Indonesian officials prior to the execution.

When Indonesian president Joko Widodo met the Saudi foreign minister Adel bin Ahmed Al Jubeir the president asked Saudi Arabia to provide protection for Indonesian migrant workers and work to resolve the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in earnest.

It turns out the request was simply ignored. As usual the fuss will die down and it will be business as usual with a country that, if it wasn’t for money, no decent person would have anything to do with.

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