In Bahrain, security forces fire on protesters in Libya it to sting. Witnesses tell of grisly scenes. President Obama is alarmed. The brutality shocked even hardened reporters: "For ten years I have reports from the Middle East, and I have rarely seen something horrible," Peter Kenyon said in a telephone interview with his editor.
The correspondent of the U.S. NPR radio is in a hospital in Bahrain's capital Manama. With a faltering voice, he reported what he observed there minutes earlier in the morgue. "A man was lying on a stretcher. The upper part of his head was literally blown off." Medic, the wounded were coming to the rescue, had told him as they were dragged from their ambulance and beaten.
"It's hard to understand everything," said Kenyon. It was decided in the early hours of Thursday when the Bahraini King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa, is not to let the protests against his rule broke out just offer more. Since then, foreign journalists reporting from scenes from Dante's Purgatory, which will take place on the island in the Persian Gulf.
Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times describes his visit at the bedside of the unconscious Sadik al-Ekris. The doctor had not only a broken nose and eye injuries, his whole body was bruised. Riot police would have trimmed the plastic surgeons with kicks and truncheon blows they had punished the doctor that he treated Lulu on the Square in the center of Manama wounded demonstrators.
Finally, the police had pulled down the 44-year-old pants and threatened to rape him. Kristof is also for the violence, acting with the Bahrain's regime against its subjects, unbelievable. "This kind of brutal oppression limited to otherwise isolated, backward nations," he writes. Bahrain was the exact opposite - the island nation is a wealthy nation with a large middle class, a center of international finance, the home port of the 5th Fleet of the U.S.
Navy. Bloody day in the Arab world on Friday the security forces demonstrated again how brutal they proceed against demonstrators: They fired on the opposition, who had gathered to protest. According to eyewitnesses, dozens of people were injured. Whether the police or the military shot down was not immediately clear.
In other Arab states, Friday was a bloody day. In Yemen, were killed in attacks on demonstrators at least four people - strangers had thrown a grenade in the middle of the crowd. In Jordan, at least eight people have been violent clashes between government opponents and supporters injured.
Both camps were demonstrating in the capital Amman. Barack Obama was alerted on Friday: He condemned the violence and called on the governments of Bahrain, Libya and Yemen for restraint. Even UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay condemned the violence. "The nature and extent of human rights violations perpetrated in several countries of the region against mostly peaceful people who demonstrate for their basic human rights and freedom, is alarming," she said.
"The protests reflected early and hard" but it seems that despot of Arabia drawn their conclusions from the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia. In Cairo, Tunis and the now deposed president, the protests had first perceived as a serious threat to their power than they had already grown to the popular uprising.
These errors do not make other Arab leaders. You want to stifle sedition in the bud - with violence. Indeed, were the events of Cairo and Tunis have been analyzed in detail in the upper echelons of the region, Lahser Atschi, North Africa expert at the Carnegie Institute in Beirut. "Arabia's rulers have seen that the protests are unstoppable when they are depressed early and hard." If only once a critical mass of protesters on the street is that it is too late.
The storm of protest could no longer be contained. The security forces in Bahrain put on guns instead of tear gas to chase the rebels from the streets: the deterrent effect is much greater if blood is flowing. "There are instructions from above, ranzugehen hard," says Atschi. Dozens of victims in Libya not only Bahrain is currently preferred to armed force instead of dialogue.
In Libya, security forces on Thursday with great aggressiveness against demonstrators. According to the human rights organization Amnesty International since the protests began at least 46 demonstrators have been killed, in the Libyan opposition groups speak of up to 50 victims. How brutal the government troops have behaved in fact, can only be guessed.
The regime of Muammar al-Gaddafi holds the local press gagged and can now hardly foreign journalists into the country. Human Rights Watch reported in the city of Benghazi had been armed with knives, men in civilian clothes among the security forces and were engraved around. More - not verifiable - information is from witnesses who have published their observations on social networks like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
They are not for the faint of heart. On a YouTube video to see how carried away a bloodied demonstrators dead. The face of the young man is one bloody mess. Again and again on shaky cell phone footage from protests shots heard. Part is to see how people bleed from gunshot wounds. But the opponents of the regime appeared to defend themselves against brutal state power.
In El Baida, 1,200 kilometers east of the capital Tripoli, protestors should have brought two police officers in their force and hung up. This tells the newspaper Oea "on its website. The Journal is the son of Libyan leader Gaddafi, Seif el Islam, close. No pity for the people, both in Libya and in Bahrain increased Faktn the typical lack of restraint of the police and the army says Atschi.
In Libya, the security forces are lacking in experience in dealing with peaceful protests. "Of course, suffers the Libyan people, but it mucked not normally." If it indeed to protests, they are brutally ended: 1996 at the Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, massacred up to 1,200 prisoners, after the improvement of their conditions of detention had asked for.
Ten years later, on 17 Died in February 2006, at least ten people, capsized as a state-organized protest against the Muhammad cartoons in a spontaneous demonstration against the regime. If it were up to dealing with critics, Libya does not know nuances, so Atschi. That the security forces showed no mercy to the people of Bahrain would be, because they are not part of the people, the Middle East expert.
"Most Gulf states foreigners get from other Muslim countries as a police and military into the country." Also in the uniform of the Bahraini police usually put Jordanians, Syrians or Pakistanis. The mercenaries do not felt the urge to fraternize with the demonstrating masses, so Atschi.
That may include the Bahraini royal family to its flown in and unrestrained brutal police and army that could fight to retain power in the island state are in fact crucial. The revolutions in Cairo and Tunis were at all possible only because the Egyptian and Tunisian military refused in each case on its own countrymen to shoot.
The correspondent of the U.S. NPR radio is in a hospital in Bahrain's capital Manama. With a faltering voice, he reported what he observed there minutes earlier in the morgue. "A man was lying on a stretcher. The upper part of his head was literally blown off." Medic, the wounded were coming to the rescue, had told him as they were dragged from their ambulance and beaten.
"It's hard to understand everything," said Kenyon. It was decided in the early hours of Thursday when the Bahraini King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa, is not to let the protests against his rule broke out just offer more. Since then, foreign journalists reporting from scenes from Dante's Purgatory, which will take place on the island in the Persian Gulf.
Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times describes his visit at the bedside of the unconscious Sadik al-Ekris. The doctor had not only a broken nose and eye injuries, his whole body was bruised. Riot police would have trimmed the plastic surgeons with kicks and truncheon blows they had punished the doctor that he treated Lulu on the Square in the center of Manama wounded demonstrators.
Finally, the police had pulled down the 44-year-old pants and threatened to rape him. Kristof is also for the violence, acting with the Bahrain's regime against its subjects, unbelievable. "This kind of brutal oppression limited to otherwise isolated, backward nations," he writes. Bahrain was the exact opposite - the island nation is a wealthy nation with a large middle class, a center of international finance, the home port of the 5th Fleet of the U.S.
Navy. Bloody day in the Arab world on Friday the security forces demonstrated again how brutal they proceed against demonstrators: They fired on the opposition, who had gathered to protest. According to eyewitnesses, dozens of people were injured. Whether the police or the military shot down was not immediately clear.
In other Arab states, Friday was a bloody day. In Yemen, were killed in attacks on demonstrators at least four people - strangers had thrown a grenade in the middle of the crowd. In Jordan, at least eight people have been violent clashes between government opponents and supporters injured.
Both camps were demonstrating in the capital Amman. Barack Obama was alerted on Friday: He condemned the violence and called on the governments of Bahrain, Libya and Yemen for restraint. Even UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay condemned the violence. "The nature and extent of human rights violations perpetrated in several countries of the region against mostly peaceful people who demonstrate for their basic human rights and freedom, is alarming," she said.
"The protests reflected early and hard" but it seems that despot of Arabia drawn their conclusions from the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia. In Cairo, Tunis and the now deposed president, the protests had first perceived as a serious threat to their power than they had already grown to the popular uprising.
These errors do not make other Arab leaders. You want to stifle sedition in the bud - with violence. Indeed, were the events of Cairo and Tunis have been analyzed in detail in the upper echelons of the region, Lahser Atschi, North Africa expert at the Carnegie Institute in Beirut. "Arabia's rulers have seen that the protests are unstoppable when they are depressed early and hard." If only once a critical mass of protesters on the street is that it is too late.
The storm of protest could no longer be contained. The security forces in Bahrain put on guns instead of tear gas to chase the rebels from the streets: the deterrent effect is much greater if blood is flowing. "There are instructions from above, ranzugehen hard," says Atschi. Dozens of victims in Libya not only Bahrain is currently preferred to armed force instead of dialogue.
In Libya, security forces on Thursday with great aggressiveness against demonstrators. According to the human rights organization Amnesty International since the protests began at least 46 demonstrators have been killed, in the Libyan opposition groups speak of up to 50 victims. How brutal the government troops have behaved in fact, can only be guessed.
The regime of Muammar al-Gaddafi holds the local press gagged and can now hardly foreign journalists into the country. Human Rights Watch reported in the city of Benghazi had been armed with knives, men in civilian clothes among the security forces and were engraved around. More - not verifiable - information is from witnesses who have published their observations on social networks like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
They are not for the faint of heart. On a YouTube video to see how carried away a bloodied demonstrators dead. The face of the young man is one bloody mess. Again and again on shaky cell phone footage from protests shots heard. Part is to see how people bleed from gunshot wounds. But the opponents of the regime appeared to defend themselves against brutal state power.
In El Baida, 1,200 kilometers east of the capital Tripoli, protestors should have brought two police officers in their force and hung up. This tells the newspaper Oea "on its website. The Journal is the son of Libyan leader Gaddafi, Seif el Islam, close. No pity for the people, both in Libya and in Bahrain increased Faktn the typical lack of restraint of the police and the army says Atschi.
In Libya, the security forces are lacking in experience in dealing with peaceful protests. "Of course, suffers the Libyan people, but it mucked not normally." If it indeed to protests, they are brutally ended: 1996 at the Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, massacred up to 1,200 prisoners, after the improvement of their conditions of detention had asked for.
Ten years later, on 17 Died in February 2006, at least ten people, capsized as a state-organized protest against the Muhammad cartoons in a spontaneous demonstration against the regime. If it were up to dealing with critics, Libya does not know nuances, so Atschi. That the security forces showed no mercy to the people of Bahrain would be, because they are not part of the people, the Middle East expert.
"Most Gulf states foreigners get from other Muslim countries as a police and military into the country." Also in the uniform of the Bahraini police usually put Jordanians, Syrians or Pakistanis. The mercenaries do not felt the urge to fraternize with the demonstrating masses, so Atschi.
That may include the Bahraini royal family to its flown in and unrestrained brutal police and army that could fight to retain power in the island state are in fact crucial. The revolutions in Cairo and Tunis were at all possible only because the Egyptian and Tunisian military refused in each case on its own countrymen to shoot.
- Dozens Wounded In Clashes In Bahrain (19/02/2011)
- "Bahrain protests are different: It is Shiites against the Sunnis" and related posts (19/02/2011)
- Bahrain Cops Attack Protesters As Army Leaves (19/02/2011)
- Bahrain opposition rejects talks (19/02/2011)
- New York Times Reporters Shot At In Bahrain (18/02/2011)
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