Peaceful protesters killed in Bahrain today

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Nabeel Rajab member of Human Rights Organization arrested at the early hours today and the release him now. The Security forces start arresting many leaders after crackdown the roundabout on Wednesday 16 March 2011.

 

[hipeter924]

Everything you are saying is true I'm just saying from a personal perspective I hate to see people fighting for their freedom getting shot down like this, even though I know the US will not get involved physically on the ground to stop any of this.

I feel sorry for them too, but even if they do achieve their freedom from one faction (Ghadaffi and the like), they will have to achieve it from others such as the military and religious radicals. The aftermath of these revolutions is unlikely to be pleasant for those groups not in the majority.

You are right and now the Iranians are supporting the protestors in Bahrain, so there is more to this than what wer seeing.

The Coptic Christians and others in Egypt fear the islamic brotherhood having a victory in the elections, because many of the brotherhoods members support islamic theocracy. So I am pretty much seeing what I thought would happen, which is overall quite sad.

 

[dilloduck]

I feel sorry for them too, but even if they do achieve their freedom from one faction (Ghadaffi and the like), they will have to achieve it from others such as the military and religious radicals. The aftermath of these revolutions is unlikely to be pleasant for those groups not in the majority.

You are right and now the Iranians are supporting the protestors in Bahrain, so there is more to this than what wer seeing.

The Coptic Christians and others in Egypt fear the islamic brotherhood having a victory in the elections, because many of the brotherhoods members support islamic theocracy. So I am pretty much seeing what I thought would happen, which is overall quite sad.

So the UN will only protect rebels that we like ?

 

[hipeter924]

You are right and now the Iranians are supporting the protestors in Bahrain, so there is more to this than what wer seeing.

The Coptic Christians and others in Egypt fear the islamic brotherhood having a victory in the elections, because many of the brotherhoods members support islamic theocracy. So I am pretty much seeing what I thought would happen, which is overall quite sad.

So the UN will only protect rebels that we like ?

The UN doesn't protect anything, save its own wallet.

 

[High_Gravity]

Thuggery: Who Is in Charge of Bahrain's Street Gangs?

Between the Saudi army tanks and police barricades that are now canvassing the Bahraini capital of Manama, there is a new and scarier breed of checkpoints: those manned by civilian thugs. Masked and wielding bats, chain batons and even swords, they search cars for anything they construe as antigovernment memorabilia, including Bahraini flags, beating passengers should anything be discovered. Foreigners are not exempt. One Western woman said her car's tires were shot. In Hamad Town, a Sunni enclave near King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa's palace in Riffa, there have been reports of several beatings by thugs who patrol the area, clubs in hand. Opposition leaders insist that the mask-wearing vigilantes have become government proxies, used to intimidate protesters and foreign journalists. At various checkpoints, police cars have idled nearby while the thugs — some of whom look no older than 18 — harass passersby. The capital is a veritable ghost town as residents abide by a curfew from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. to avoid the gangs.

Automatic rifles are often propped next to the thugs lounging on sidewalks. The opposition says that obtaining such weapons is nearly impossible for civilians without the express consent of the regime. Using civilian thugs is "a way for the regime to intimidate and threaten the opposition without getting its fingerprints on it," says Barak Barfi, research fellow and Middle East specialist at the New America Foundation. Barfi adds, "It's clear that there's an intimidation campaign being waged against both foreign and domestic media." On Friday, Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed al-Khalifa flatly dismissed allegations that the thugs were part of the government apparatus.

Nabeel Rajab, head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, says thuggery is a second job and that "most probably these guys are from the national-security apparatus and the National Guard." He believes most of them are non-Bahrainis — the force is mostly composed of Yemenis, Syrians, Pakistanis and Lebanese. "They have beaten many, injured hundreds," says Rajab, who was himself arrested and beaten by uniformed security forces in the early hours of Friday morning. "They're everywhere in Manama and in the outside villages. They wear masks because they don't want to be known." Faced with a violent crackdown, opposition political party al-Wefaq said that it may have no other option but to strike back.

Read more: Bahrain: Armed Thugs Intimidate Protesters, Journalists - TIME

 

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Bahrain Shia Village Treats Injured Protesters in Homes Amid Arrest Fears

Bahraini security forces pushed into the Shiite village of Karzakan as part of the government’s efforts to quell more than a month of unrest in the Persian Gulf island nation.

About 12 young men were injured yesterday when police fired tear gas and birdshot pellets at them, said Jasim Marzooq, a nurse who witnessed the incursion.

“We treat the wounded in homes, they are afraid of being arrested if they go to hospitals,” Marzooq said in an interview.

Bahrain’s government declared a three-month state of emergency on March 15 after troops from Saudi Arabia and other Arab Gulf states arrived to support the kingdom’s Sunni monarch in suppressing demonstrations. Mainly Shiite protesters started on Feb. 14 demanding democracy and more civil rights.

Bahrain Shia Village Treats Injured Protesters in Homes Amid Arrest Fears - Bloomberg

 

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The first Women killed in this revolution is a doctor shotted by Saudi Sniper.

 

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The first Women killed in this revolution is a doctor shotted by Saudi Sniper.

 

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a demo got suppressed whilest an interview with Nabeel Rajab


Rights groups condemn Bahrain violence

 

[High_Gravity]

Bahrain bans Lebanon travel, sectarian tension rises

(Reuters) - Bahrain warned its nationals on Tuesday not to travel to Lebanon for their own safety, after Iranian-backed Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah came out in support of weeks of protests by mainly Shi'ite demonstrators.

The warning highlights growing tensions in the world's largest oil-exporting region between Sunni-ruled Arab countries and non-Arab Shi'ite power Iran, just across Gulf waters.

Bahrain has already withdrawn its top diplomats from Iran in a protest over the Islamic Republic's criticism of last week's crackdown on mainly Shi'ite protesters in the island kingdom.

The crackdown has also drawn sympathy protests in countries with Shi'ite populations, including Lebanon, where Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah criticized Arab states for backing Bahrain's rulers while supporting the rebels in Libya.

"Due to the threats and interference that Bahrain has faced from terrorist elements, it warns and advises its nationals not to travel to Lebanon because of the dangers they may face that may affect their safety, and it advises nationals in Lebanon to leave immediately," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

Bahrain bans Lebanon travel, sectarian tension rises | Reuters

 

[Sunni Man]

(Reuters) - Bahrain warned its nationals on Tuesday not to travel to Lebanon for their own safety, after Iranian-backed Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah came out in support of weeks of protests by mainly Shi'ite demonstrators.

The warning highlights growing tensions in the world's largest oil-exporting region between Sunni-ruled Arab countries and non-Arab Shi'ite power Iran, just across Gulf waters.

Bahrain has already withdrawn its top diplomats from Iran in a protest over the Islamic Republic's criticism of last week's crackdown on mainly Shi'ite protesters in the island kingdom.

The crackdown has also drawn sympathy protests in countries with Shi'ite populations, including Lebanon, where Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah criticized Arab states for backing Bahrain's rulers while supporting the rebels in Libya.

"Due to the threats and interference that Bahrain has faced from terrorist elements, it warns and advises its nationals not to travel to Lebanon because of the dangers they may face that may affect their safety, and it advises nationals in Lebanon to leave immediately," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

Like I was trying to say early in this thread.

These protests aren't about "Democracy."

They are about the Shiites taking over Bahrain and aligning themselves with Iran.

 

[High_Gravity]

(Reuters) - Bahrain warned its nationals on Tuesday not to travel to Lebanon for their own safety, after Iranian-backed Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah came out in support of weeks of protests by mainly Shi'ite demonstrators.

The warning highlights growing tensions in the world's largest oil-exporting region between Sunni-ruled Arab countries and non-Arab Shi'ite power Iran, just across Gulf waters.

Bahrain has already withdrawn its top diplomats from Iran in a protest over the Islamic Republic's criticism of last week's crackdown on mainly Shi'ite protesters in the island kingdom.

The crackdown has also drawn sympathy protests in countries with Shi'ite populations, including Lebanon, where Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah criticized Arab states for backing Bahrain's rulers while supporting the rebels in Libya.

"Due to the threats and interference that Bahrain has faced from terrorist elements, it warns and advises its nationals not to travel to Lebanon because of the dangers they may face that may affect their safety, and it advises nationals in Lebanon to leave immediately," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

Like I was trying to say early in this thread.

These protests aren't about "Democracy."

They are about the Shiites taking over Bahrain and aligning themselves with Iran.

Well I'll say one things getting endorsements from Hezbollah and Iran never helps anyone.

 

[High_Gravity]

Bahrain protest crackdown defended by European Union envoy

The European Union has defended Bahrain's violent repression of pro-democracy protesters, with the EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton's right-hand man downplaying the crackdown with the comment "accidents happen".

Twenty-one people have been killed and up to 100 others are still missing after King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa unleashed his security forces last week, putting an end to two months of growing protests that had threatened the legitimacy of Bahrain's monarchy and stoked sectarian tensions throughout the Gulf.

The UN high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay, has denounced the beating of medical personnel and the takeover of hospitals by security forces.

But Robert Cooper, one of the EU's highest-ranking diplomats and councillor to Ashton on the Middle East and the Balkans, told MEPs: "I'm not sure if the police have had to deal with these public order questions before. It's not easy dealing with large demonstrations in which there may be violence. It's a difficult task for policemen. It's not something that we always get right in the best western countries and accidents happen."

Briefing MEPs after a fact-finding mission to the Gulf, Cooper stressed that two of those killed were police. He said that Bahrain, home to the US fifth fleet, is "a rather pleasant, peaceful place".

While still calling for dialogue between protesters and the government, he said: "One should understand the authorities were right to restore calm and order and that's what they've done."

Bahrain protest crackdown defended by European Union envoy | World news | The Guardian

 

[Douger]

Protesters killed as police storm Bahrain demonstration camp - Channel 4 News

Link to Brit C4 report. I thought Bahrain was one of the more settled ME states.

The only settled nations on the entire planet are occupied by ignorant, brainwashed sheep.

It's 2011. Time for the current systems of governance, the elites, royalty and corps that own it and the slime controlling the currencies all need to go !

I expect a whole lot of blood to flow over the next several years....................or a brown dwarf to show up with The Cure.

 

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Protesters flied balloons today as new way to express their demands:

 

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Bullets vs. doughnuts: Bahrain, Yemen and the US response

The media and the public are understandably paying a lot of attention to the brutal repression of the rebellion in Libya and the US and allied response. However, while debate rages about the proper response to Qaddafi’s violent push against the rebels, the suffering civilians of Bahrain and Yemen, whose governments have a much cozier relationship with the US, have been largely ignored.

One of the eternal frustrations of those of us who advocate for a foreign policy based on respect for human rights and peaceful resolution of conflict is how selectively the US applies its standards and uses its considerable clout in the global community. The US has had a middling response so far to the crackdowns in Bahrain and Yemen, opposing violence “on both sides” (particularly maddening given the lopsidedness of the violence here) but avoiding harsh rhetoric, while not utilizing the leverage it has with these governments to push for a peaceful solution. Bahrain and Yemen have been buried in the mainstream news, removing one of the pressure points on the administration to take a stronger stand and fuel for the world to be moved by outrage to call for action. As Think Progress reports, Libya was mentioned 9,524 times by major cable news networks last week, while Bahrain and Yemen only going 1,587 and 599 mentions respectively.

Bullets vs. doughnuts: Bahrain, Yemen and the US response | MyFDL

 

[bareed]

Everyday we discover new martyr, 2 martyr announced today. As Bahrain Defense Forces (BDF) holding injured and hide information about them we will get more martyrs.

 

[hipeter924]

Bahrain protest crackdown defended by European Union envoy

The European Union has defended Bahrain's violent repression of pro-democracy protesters, with the EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton's right-hand man downplaying the crackdown with the comment "accidents happen".

Twenty-one people have been killed and up to 100 others are still missing after King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa unleashed his security forces last week, putting an end to two months of growing protests that had threatened the legitimacy of Bahrain's monarchy and stoked sectarian tensions throughout the Gulf.

The UN high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay, has denounced the beating of medical personnel and the takeover of hospitals by security forces.

But Robert Cooper, one of the EU's highest-ranking diplomats and councillor to Ashton on the Middle East and the Balkans, told MEPs: "I'm not sure if the police have had to deal with these public order questions before. It's not easy dealing with large demonstrations in which there may be violence. It's a difficult task for policemen. It's not something that we always get right in the best western countries and accidents happen."

Briefing MEPs after a fact-finding mission to the Gulf, Cooper stressed that two of those killed were police. He said that Bahrain, home to the US fifth fleet, is "a rather pleasant, peaceful place".

While still calling for dialogue between protesters and the government, he said: "One should understand the authorities were right to restore calm and order and that's what they've done."

Bahrain protest crackdown defended by European Union envoy | World news | The Guardian

At last the perfect, 'peace-loving' EU that apparently 'cares' shows its true self, just as it did in Rwanda, it doesn't care about human rights, democracy or anything (or anyone) just its blatant self interests (as if the US is the only country that wants oil and natural resources, and political power).

PS: Then again EU covering up of war crimes and human rights abuses is commonplace.

 

[High_Gravity]

Protests planned for Bahrain despite ban

Reporting from Manama, Bahrain— Critics of the Bahrain government have called for widespread rallies Friday in defiance of the country's recent imposition of martial law, raising the possibility of further violence nine days after a bloody crackdown on protesters and opposition leaders.

Nine rallies are being planned around Manama, the capital, said Mohammed Meskati, president of the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights, which is serving as an information clearinghouse for organizers in hiding for fear of arrest.

The protests are aimed at defying key aspects of the three-month emergency rule invoked last week by King Hamed ibn Isa Khalifa, including the cordoning off of many neighborhoods and villages by security forces, a ban on marches and a curfew, Meskati said.

Demonstrators apparently plan to gather on main roads. Some plan to march on the capital's Pearl Square traffic circle, which served as a base camp in earlier protests; the Salmaniya Medical Complex, the small island nation's largest hospital; and the airport.

The youth society issued a plea to the government and protesters urging them to refrain from violence. Protesters have been asked to carry flowers and the Bahraini and Gulf Cooperation Council flags. But Meskati and other analysts said they worried that a heavy-handed government response could be met with violence by some protesters, who were largely peaceful, if sometimes provocative, in the weeks of demonstrations that roiled Bahrain starting in mid-February.

"I don't know if the demonstrations will be violent or not," he said. "They might turn violent if the security forces attack them."

The nation's Shiite Muslim majority, which feels marginalized by the Sunni-led government, has been rallying for weeks in favor of fundamental reforms. After weathering sporadic clashes between protesters and security forces and the shutdown of the country's financial center, the Bahraini government began its rout of the opposition early last week.

Saudi and other troops entered the country to bolster the Sunni monarchy and the emergency rule was established. Security forces were sent into restive, largely Shiite villages and protest hubs in the capital to disperse demonstrations and round up opponents of the government.

Bahrain protest: Bahrain protests planned despite ban - latimes.com

 

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My village surrounded by siege and when we start protest the riot police fire bird-gun, tear gas and some heard live ammunitions.

All villages in Bahrain are surrounded by siege and troops closed their gates from this morning as today called to be the "Day of rage" and the day of breaking the sieges that surround many villages this week.