only very few journalists managed to make it to awamiya.wamiya you have to take this armed vehicle and be in the company police special forces the government says it is under control now but the security situation is quite perilous. as a look through the window, i can see that the town is almost deserted. the scale of devastation here is shocking. as we enter the place with our government escort, we see what is left of a once vibrant residential area. a large shia community used to live here. they had long protested against what they called discrimination. the confrontation took a violent turn last may when the authorities started to demolish the authorities started to demolish the area as a part of what they say isa the area as a part of what they say is a development project. shia groups accuse the government of forcing people to leave with the aim of crushing dissent. but even today, the fighting is not over yet. they just asked us to leave so we have to go at once because it is not safe to say. —— state. the saudis say they are also tar