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| Bahrain forces fire on protesters |
| 2011-04-29 |
| [Iran Press TV] Bahraini forces have fired live rounds at protesters east of the kingdom, keeping up the Soddy Arabia-backed crackdown on anti-government protests. The violence occurred on Thursday during festivities between security forces and anti-government demonstrators in Sitra, a Press TV correspondent reported. Video footage featuring earlier events showed the forces using poison gas against protesters. On Wednesday, the regime forces' raided one of Sitra's medical centers before arresting several doctors. Also on Thursday, a military court in the Persian Gulf kingdom sentenced four jugged protesters to death, despite Manama's rejection of reports by a number of human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... groups, pointing to extended massive rights violations in the country, said our correspondent. Anti-government protesters have been holding peaceful demonstrations across Bahrain since mid-February, calling for an end to the Al Khalifa dynasty's 40-year rule. On March 13, Soddy Arabia and the United Arab Emirates deployed police and military forces in the kingdom upon Manama's request to quell the nationwide protests. According to local sources, scores of people have been killed and hundreds tossed in the calaboose so far during the government clampdown on the peaceful demonstrations. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 I'll take a program, young man. As Bahrain goes, I feel like I've come in late to the wrong opera -- things weren't supposed to go this way. I thought... |
| Posted by: Pollyandrew 2011-04-29 17:44 |
| #1 Get yer programs here! Can't tell your enlightened dictators from your brutal oppressors without a program!... |
| Posted by: mojo 2011-04-29 10:51 |