Bahraini Regime Crackdown Continues as Revolution Inspires Faith from Int’l al-Quds Day
Since mid-February the Bahraini streets have been witnessing unrest, especially amid a brutal Saudi-backed regime crackdown at peaceful protesters.
Daily anti-regime protesters are being subject to tear gas, live bullet rounds, injury, detention, and not to mention the scores dying out of no guilt.
In this context, the Saudi-backed regime forces attacked an anti-government rallies on Friday, including peaceful demonstrations held on the International al-Quds Day.
The Bahraini regime issued a statement in which it banned anti-government protests, as well as International al-Quds Day rallies. During the aforementioned rallies which were taking place in various Bahraini cities, protesters called against the Zionist regime and its illegal practices in the occupied territories, and burring "Israeli" flags. Several protesters were injures due to the Bahraini government forces' attacks to disperse the protesters.
Although the International al-Quds Day rallies are mainly to call for the end of the "Israeli" illegal occupation of Palestine, however the Bahraini regime has been banning these rallies for two years in a row fearing they would turn into anti-regime demonstrations.
Despite regime threats, the Bahrainis continue their demands for reform and for a just elected government.
On this level, Bahraini cleric Sheikh Issa Qassem warned his country's regime rulers to either ease their grip on power or "risk joint Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and other Arab leaders swept aside by uprisings", Associated Press reported.
Although Sheikh Qassem was threatened by the regime earlier, accusing him of promoting the unrest, however he affirmed during his Friday preach that he would not be silences, stressing that it is his duty to support the reform demands of his people.
Furthermore, Sheikh Issa Qassem noted that the tyrant rulers of Bahrain should either enact sweeping reforms or risk the same fate as the ousted presidents of Egypt and Tunisia.
Source: News Agencies
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