KHASHOGGI SPIN BUT A PACK OF LIES

THE contradictory and mixed messages coming from US president Donald Trump and the Saudi Arabian regime over the brutal murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi are not surprising.

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, among other human rights bodies, have documented many possible unlawful killings, carried out by different governments around the globe. In most cases perpetrators investigate themselves and thereafter release a report by using smokescreen terminologies like “collateral damage” or the “victims got caught in the crossfire”.

These camouflage terms are regularly used to describe and hide the killing of human beings or to remove so-called critics.

To this end, it is nothing new that the Saudi regime, in this case the alleged suspects, are investigating themselves.

The Saudi regime’s description of events surrounding Khashoggi’s death is being rejected all around the globe as a pack of lies. Hence, it is disingenuous for the American government to claim that it is waiting for the Saudi regime to come up with its report of the investigation.

It is absolutely strange how a journalist entering the Saudi embassy in Turkey disappears and weeks later we are told he was killed, possibly by rogue elements in a fistfight.

This type of assassination cannot take place without the knowledge, instruction or command of the executive of the Saudi regime. MOHAMED SAEED

Pietermaritzburg