Srikandi גבורה - Akibat
kekurangan keperluan asas mereka, 4 puteri diraja Arab disimpan dalam 13 tahun
pengasingan oleh bapa mereka, Raja Abdullah, telah melebihi 60 hari tanpa
makanan.
Anak-anak
perempuan raja jatuh daripada memihak bapa mereka untuk bercakap menen-tang
rawatan sakit wanita dalam kerajaan Teluk. Ia juga dipercayai bahawa raja itu
marah pada ibu perempuan untuk tidak memberinya anak lelaki.
2
daripada puteri, Sahar dan Jawaher, berkata mereka yang disimpan supaya mereka
dalam 2 rumah-rumah besar di dalam sebatian diraja di bandar Jeddah,
bersama-sama dengan mereka yang lain 2 saudara perempuan - Maha dan Hala.
Mereka berkata mereka telah dilucutkan makanan selama lebih 60 hari dan punyai
akses yang sangat sedikit dengan air.
"Ia
situasi yang dahsyat, ia kebuluran memaksa dasarnya. Mereka mengurung kita,
kita tak diberikan makanan dan air, kebebasan dan hak-hak. Kami berjuang, kita
yang masih hidup, kita menentang, kita cuba yang terbaik untuk terus hidup,"
kedua-dua adik-beradik kepada RT melalui Skype.
"Bagaimana
kita boleh terus hidup seperti ini? Kita perlu mengambil risiko [bersuara]."
Setelah
menghabiskan begitu banyak masa dilucutkan kebebasan, mereka sukar untuk memahami
mengapa mereka telah dikunci.kan
"Raja
dan anak-anaknya perlu menjawab soalan-soalan ini: Apa yang kami Didakwakan ?
Apa sebenarnya jenayah kami? "
"Apakah
jenayah 99 peratus wanita di negara ini, yang pada dasarnya menderita di bawah
penjagaan lelaki? Seseorang penjaga lelaki boleh melakukan apa sahaja yang dia
mahu; dia boleh menyekatkan segala-galanya dan dia ditinggalkan dengan apa-apa,"
kata mereka bagi pihak rakyat wanita kerajaan ultraconservative.
"Kami
membuat kenyataan-kenyataan ini sekarang [untuk] mendapat hak kami, kebebasan kami."
Raja Abdullah Arab Saudi (Saudi Arabia's
King Abdullah (Reuters/Brendan Smialowski)
Kesihatan
mereka perlahan-lahan semakin merosot. Rayuan ‘appeals’ yang lalu oleh ibu mereka, Alanoud Al-Fayez,
untuk mendapat bantuan luar - termasuk dari pemimpin Barat seperti Presiden
Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama - tidak membuahkan hasil.
Pentadbiran
ini saja menutup mata, menurut beberapa pengkritik. Tetapi keadaan itu tidak
boleh dibantu dengan merayu sama ada kepada kerajaan Saudi, kerana ia
menge-kalkan bahawa puteri sempurna bebas untuk bergerak di sekitar bandar
Jeddah, dengan syarat mereka ditemani oleh pengawal peribadi.
4
adik-beradik adalah di antara umur 38 dan 42, dengan sekurang-kurangnya satu
dikatakan mengalami masalah psikologi.
Sebelum
itu, dalam wawancara yang jarang berlaku dengan media asing, adik-beradik
berkata, mereka tidak mempunyai apa-apa pasport atau ID dan raja juga telah
meng-haramkan mana-mana lelaki untuk mendapatkan tangan anak-anak perempuannya
dalam perkahwinan. Sepanjang masa mereka telah disimpan secara berasingan,
kedua-dua elek-trik dan air telah menutup secara rawak, selalunya untuk hari -
minggu.
Raja
berusia 89 tahun dan bapa kepada 38 kanak-kanak, yang diberikan kepadanya oleh
ramai isterinya, disenaraikan di kalangan lelaki yang paling kaya dan
berpengaruh majalah Forbes, dengan kekayaan dianggarkan kira-kira US $ 17
bilion.
Puteri
'ibu, Al- Fayez, bercerai Raja Abdullah pada tahun 1980, akibatnya meninggalkan
untuk ke London pada tahun 2001. Adik-beradik 'pengalaman pahit maka bermula
sekitar tahun 2002. Kurang daripada satu tahun selepas ibu mereka melarikan diri,
Abdullah mula menyeksa anak-anak perempuannya.
Adik-beradik
memberitahu ibu mereka bahawa dia dadah ‘drug ged’ makanan dan air mereka untuk
memastikan mereka jinak apabila mereka secara terbuka bercakap terhadap wanita
yang haram ditahan dan diletakkan di wad mental.
Pengarah
Institut Hal Ehwal Teluk, Ali Al-Ahmed, percaya keadaan hak asasi manusia di
kubur di dalam kerajaan dan ditambah lagi dengan strategi politik dari luar,
yang tujuan adalah untuk menyimpan mana-mana akhbar negatif di teluk, dan merupakan
satu kuasa yang sama ada mengubah keadaan menjadi lebih baik atau menyimpan
mereka kerana mereka.
"Ini
adalah sifat monarki Saudi, yang menindas rakyat di negara mereka. Tetapi
sekarang ia amat jelas bahawa mereka menindas ahli-ahli wanita mereka sendiri.
Raja
yang digambarkan dalam media antarabangsa - dalam media Barat - sebagai seorang
pembaharu, adalah penindas anak-anak perempuan sendiri; wanita dewasa yang
sihat, yang telah diadakan selama 13 tahun . . . mereka yang sengaja di kebuluran,
" Al-Ahmed memberitahu RT.
"Orang
di luar negara pasti boleh bercakap dan menahan orang-orang yang
bertang-gungjawab untuk dipertanggungjawabkan jenayah ini; iaitu raja Arab dan
anak-anaknya . . . yang sengaja berbuat demikian."
‘What
is Our Crime?’ Saudi princesses denied food
for over 60 days . . .
Deprived
of their basic needs, the four Saudi royal princesses kept in 13-year isolation
by their father, King Abdullah, have surpassed 60 days without food.
The
monarch’s daughters fell out of their father’s favor for speaking out against
the ill treatment of women in the Gulf kingdom. It is also believed that the
king was angry at the girls' mother for not giving him a son.
Two
of the princesses, Sahar and Jawaher, say they are being kept against their
will in two mansions inside a royal compound in the city of Jeddah, along with
their other two sisters – Maha and Hala. They say they have been deprived of
food for over 60 days and have very little access to water.
“It’s
a horrible situation, it’s a forced famine basically. They are confining us,
depriving us of food and water, freedom and rights. We are struggling, we are
surviving, we are resisting, we are trying our best to stay alive,” the two
sisters told RT via Skype.
“How
can we continue living like this? We have to take the risk of [speaking
out]."
Having
spent so much time deprived of freedom, they struggle to understand why they
have been locked up.
“The
king and his sons need to answer these questions: What are we charged with? What
exactly is our crime?”
“What
is the crime of 99 percent of women in this country, who are basically
suffering under male guardianship? A male guardian can do whatever he wants; he
can cut off everything and she is left with nothing,” they said on behalf of
the female citizens of the ultraconservative kingdom.
“We are
making these statements right now [in order to] gain our rights, our freedoms.”
Their
health is slowly deteriorating. Past appeals
by their mother, Alanoud Al-Fayez, for outside assistance - including from
Western leaders like US President Barack Obama - have not come to fruition.
The
administration is turning a blind eye, according to some critics. But the
situation cannot be helped by appealing to the Saudi government either, as it
maintains that the princesses are in fact perfectly free to move around the
city of Jeddah, provided they are accompanied by bodyguards.
The
four sisters are between the ages of 38 and 42, with at least one said to be
suffering from psychological problems.
Earlier,
in rare interviews with foreign media, the sisters said they don’t have any
passports or IDs and the king has also forbidden any man to seek his daughters’
hands in marriage. The entire time they have been kept in isolation, both
electricity and water have been shut off at random, often for days - even
weeks.
The
89-year-old monarch and father of 38 children, given to him by multiple wives,
is listed among Forbes magazine's most wealthy and influential men, with a
fortune estimated at around US$17 billion.
The
princesses' mother, Al-Fayez, divorced King Abdullah in 1980, consequently
leaving for London in 2001. The sisters' ordeal then began around 2002. Less
than one year after their mother escaped, Abdullah began tormenting his
daughters.
The
sisters told their mother that he drugged their food and water to keep them
docile when they openly spoke against women being illegally detained and placed
in mental wards.
The
director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs, Ali Al-Ahmed, believes the grave
human rights situation in the kingdom is compounded by a political strategy
from the outside, whose purpose is to keep any negative press at bay, and is a
force to either change things for the better or keep them as they are.
“This
is the nature of the Saudi monarchy, who are oppressing the people in their
country. But now it’s very clear that they’re oppressing their own female
members. The king who is portrayed in the international media - in the Western
media - as a reformer, is oppressing his own daughters; healthy adult women,
who have been held for 13 years . . . they’re being starved deliberately,”
Al-Ahmed told RT.
“People
outside the country definitely can speak and hold those people who are
responsible for this crime accountable; namely the Saudi king and his sons . .
. who are deliberately doing this.”
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