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bropn van die dictaturen + link waar SA op burgers heeft geschoten anders ook hier leugens ...

Bahrein, waar Saudi Arabië het tirannieke regime hielp om de bevolkingsopstand neer te slaan. Overigens bevindt zich in Bahrein een militaire basis van de VS. De vS hebben geen vinger uitgestoken om de bevolking te helpen en hebben de repressie ook niet veroordeeld.

2011 Bahraini
Protesters camped out for days at the Pearl Roundabout, which functioned as the centre point of protests until it was torn down.
Casualties

Deaths 42[10][11][12]
Wounded ~1000[13][14]
Arrested ~828[15][16]
Layoffs ~2012[17]

The 2011 Bahraini uprising, sometimes called the Pearl Revolution (Arabic: ثورة الؤلؤ‎), is a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of civil resistance, in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain. As part of the revolutionary wave of protests in the Middle East and North Africa following the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia, the Bahraini protests were initially aimed at achieving greater political freedom and equality for the majority Shia population,[18][19] and expanded to a call to end the monarchy of King Hamad[4] following a deadly night raid on 17 February against protesters at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama.[20][21]

Protesters in Manama camped out for days at the Pearl Roundabout, which functioned as the centre point of protests there. After a month, the government requested troops and police from the Gulf Cooperation Council, which arrived on 14 March, and a day later, the king of Bahrain declared martial law and a three-month state of emergency.[22][23]

The police response has been described as a "brutal" crackdown on peaceful and unarmed protestors, including doctors and bloggers.[24][25][26] The police carried out midnight house raids in Shia neighbourhoods, beatings at checkpoints, and denial of medical care in a campaign of intimidation.[27][28][29][30]

On 14 March, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) agreed to deploy Peninsula Shield Force troops to Bahrain. Saudi Arabia deployed about 1,000 troops with armored support, and the United Arab Emirates deployed about 500 police officers. The forces crossed into Bahrain via the King Fahd Causeway. The purported reason of the intervention was to secure key installations.[73][74] The opposition reacted strongly, calling it an "occupation".[75]

The Pearl Roundabout was violently cleared of protesters within days, leaving five dead and hundreds wounded.[78] Several opposition figures, including Hassan Mushaima, were arrested. In an interview with Al Jazeera, Mushaima had claimed protesters were gunned down despite offering only nonviolent civil resistance.[79][80] On 18 March, the Pearl Monument in the middle of the Pearl Roundabout was demolished on government orders.[81] A planned "day of rage" across Bahrain late in March was quickly squelched by government troops, a sign of the apparent ascendancy of security forces in the faltering uprising.[82][83]

In April, international doctors' organizations Médecins Sans Frontières and Physicians for Human Rights reported medical staff and patients were systematically detained from Bahraini hospitals by assailants allegedly acting on government orders.[84][85][86][87] UK medics have stated that Bahrain is violating the Geneva Convention.[87]
Late in the month, four Shia demonstrators detained during March's deadly raid on the Pearl Roundabout were sentenced to death for allegedly attacking officers.[92] The sentences for two of the condemned were later commuted to life imprisonment without parole.[93] Bahrain's government suspended the country’s only opposition newspaper on April 3, accusing it of printing false information about the ongoing democratic protest movement and of plagiarizing. Al Wasat is the only newspaper in Bahrain without connections to the ruling family, and was one of few domestic news sources for information on the protest movement.[94] A human rights advocate,Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, was reported missing in Bahrain on April 9 after masked security guards beat him unconscious in the middle of the night and carried away him and two sons-in-law.
Human rights groups including Amnesty International have documented alleged atrocities in Bahrain and strongly condemned authorities' response to the uprising.[240] The treatment of medical professionals accused of administering to opposition activists has been a particular source of distress to critics of the government, including both human rights advocates and journalists working in the region.[241]


Natuurlijk, repressie van volksopstanden door pro-westerse dictaturen is niet belangrijk voor mensen zoals U, noch voor de VS of Sarkozy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Bahraini_uprising