The Saudi royal family derives significant prestige from being seen as successfully managing the Hajj. However, they're not particularly competent at anything approaching governance or management, since being competent isn't a good way to get prestige, money, power, etc (being related to the right person, or possibly being extremely holy, is). So, you get continual fuckups, and continual coverups. Their debacle in Yemen proceeds under a similar pattern, as do their attempts to "modernize" their economy, and so on.
Perhaps no regime, other than maybe North Korea, has a more negative accrued karmic balance. And honestly, North Korea does less to screw up the rest of the world than the Saudis.
The Saudi government blamed Africans for the stampede even though it was mostly Iranians and South Asians who died. They're just making this tragedy worse in so many ways. The incompetence is apparent.
Perhaps no regime, other than maybe North Korea, has a more negative accrued karmic balance. And honestly, North Korea does less to screw up the rest of the world than the Saudis.