A comrade in Bahrain sent me this: (I can't identify any of them today): "As a gift to the Bahraini people, the Bahraini King kills three protestors in the day to celebrate the national charter I just got home from the protests and have heard the news that it has been confirmed that three protestors were killed today, including an eight year old boy. I am absolutely fuming. In the protest that I was in which lasted about 20 minutes, the police arrived and started attacking us (mostly old women and children) with rubber bullets and tear gas aimed directly at as and at close range. I haven't been through this before and I can tell you it was bloody scary. All we could do was dive to the ground and find somewhere to hide. The unfortunate thing is, that the police, mostly Pakistani, Syrian and Yemeni (many of them were out today) are completely irresponsible and trained to do one thing, to shoot at protestors and wave guns at you.
Two issues seriously p***ing me off:
1. Where is the media? The BBC is still reporting a minor skirmish in Karzakan village last night, when in fact thousands across the country protested resulting in 3 deaths. Aljazeera is reporting the deaths in its rolling text pane. Why aren't they using all the footage on youtube like they did in Egypt showing peaceful protests being attacked? Bahrain is a Gulf state, is it too close to home for the Qataris to give a shit?
2. Three deaths in ONE day is the highest death toll that Alkhalifa's thugs have been responsible for in the history of modern Bahrain. This is big. When two men were killed by the police in the nineties, it took five years to quell the uprising. This time, it might be much worse.
After the incident last night, our buffon royal foreign minister, tweeted that the photo being circulated was an old photo. Can you ask him if this photo is also old? Tweet about this you buffoonr, you have blood on your hands, and your obnoxious remarks are no longer tolerated."
