Bahrain protests

lethal_kamikaze · February 19, 2011, 12:24pm

Re: Bahrain protests

My parents live in Bahrain, the situation there is much, much nastier than in Egypt or even Libya because of the sectarian dimension.

The majority Shia population is kept under the thumb of the Sunni government through the sunni police and the sunni army - many Bahraini soldiers and police are Pakistanis with Bahraini citizenship brought in specifically because the government does not trust its shia populace. Looking on the net I already saw an interview with a protestor on Salon.com who was saying that the riot police beating him were talking in urdu amongst themselves!

There is extensive resentment amongst the majority population against these outsides brought in to control them. The security forces fear the sectarian violence that could emerge against them and their families if Sunni rule is overthrown - and so they are not hesitant about using lethal force.

I live in Bahrain and on some point i disagree with u. Whatever shown on news not 100% true.

In Egypt, Libya, Yemen and in other GCC country whatever is going on is totally different from the situation of Bahrain. Here some sectors wants bring their own Government which is impossible. They want to bring republic Govt. and wanna end Ruling Govt so they can do whatever they feel.

I participated in rally even many Pakistani in thier traditional dress (shalwar-kamez), Indian, Kuwaiti, Qatari, Egyption, Lebanonis and many other nationalities were all walked shoulder-2-shoulder with each other supporting King and its ruling. Even though the shia community were also there. Everything going f9 peacefully.

Some migrated pplz (shias) are not pure Bahraini they migrated from Iran, some from Iraq and by the grace of King, they have been naturalized and now they want rulings of country in their hand, simply pathetic. They are against the Govt and they trying their best to bring stability of this peaceful country upside down since 1990 but till today, they didnt successed.

Here is nothing going on serious except in few areas which marked as red-spot and those clips some of them are old clips uploaded by their own rioters to seek attention of others.

The securities includes, Sunni, shia, hindu, christian and all mixed pplz in it.