Thursday, February 17, 2011

Killed in protests in Bahrain: "The police knew what she was doing"

The record is staggering: Several dead, dozens injured - in Bahrain to go harder and harder against the security forces against demonstrators. The camp of the protesters in the capital Manama was destroyed, now patrolled by tanks. Public life had largely ceased. On the fourth day of protests against the government in Bahrain is the police acted with extreme force against the demonstrators in the capital Manama.


The security forces broke the early morning on the camp of the Lula government opponents on the central square. Police fired tear gas into the crowd and beat the man. In the clashes, according to doctors, four people were killed, dozens of protesters were injured, some seriously. Without warning, the police had stormed the camp in the capital, eyewitnesses reported.

"Women and children were attacked," says one of them, Mahmoud Mansuri. "They knew what they were doing." The use of the police had started after the media had left the square. A photographer with The Associated Press reported that police had surrounded a group of children and brought in their vehicles.

After the storming of the place could be seen on the streets of tanks and armed security forces patrolled the neighborhood. Around the square were Lula police cars stationed and blocked the streets with barbed wire. Police evacuated the tent of the protesters and trampled the banners. The interior ministers of Bahrain, called the protest camp illegally and asked the people to stay in their homes.

Manama in public life came to a virtual standstill on Thursday. Workers were not allowed into the city, banks and other businesses remained closed. In the morning it was still too sporadic clashes between demonstrators and police. Young men tore up sidewalks and threw stones at the policemen.

Dozens injured with lacerations, fractures and breathing difficulties after the firing of tear gas on Thursday searched the Salmanija Hospital. Before the clinic, protesters shouted: "The regime must go." Tens of thousands had mainly Shiite demonstrators protesting earlier on Wednesday in the Gulf state for the third day in a row against their government.

During the first days of the protests, only a democratic opening of the political system was called for on Wednesday also were calls for a withdrawal of the Sunni regime of Prime Minister Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa loud. The Shiite majority complains that it is excluded in the island nation off Saudi Arabia from the ruling Sunni minority from the housing market, health care and government jobs.

Political observers fear the spread of the protests on the world's largest oil exporter Saudi Arabia should expand the demonstrations in Bahrain. The violence of the government in Bahrain against the demonstrators was in the West, especially in the United States, harshly criticized. Although Bahrain is located between the oil-rich states of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, but has hardly even oil.

It is primarily a regional financial center and recreational oasis for wealthy Saudi Arabians, enjoy the western Bahrain in bars, hotels and beaches.

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