Al-Khalifa Forces Impose Siege on Eker for 8th Day
26 October, 2012 – Uprooted Palestinians

Al-Khlaifa security forcesSaudi-backed Bahraini forces have attacked anti-regime protesters and activists attempting to enter a besieged village in the east of the country.

The security forces used toxic teargas canisters and rubber bullets to prevent the protesters from breaking the now-eight-day-long siege of the village of Eker.

Several protesters were arrested and dozens more injured in violent clashes with the regime forces.

Meanwhile, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, a Cairo-based NGO devoted to promoting freedom of expression across the Middle East and North Africa, condemned the Manama regime’s use of systematic violence against peaceful demonstrators.

On Monday, clashes erupted between regime forces and protesters near the village, during which at least three human rights activists, including Zainab al-Khawaja, the daughter of jailed opposition leader, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, were arrested.

Khawaja said earlier that the protesters were taking food and medical supplies to the village’s residents.

Bahrain’s revolution began in mid-February 2011 when oppression-weary public, inspired by popular revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, started holding massive demonstrations against the ruling regime.

Al-Khalifa crackdown against the Bahraini RevolutionThe Bahraini government promptly launched a brutal crackdown on the peaceful protests and called in Saudi-led Arab forces from neighboring Persian Gulf states to help crack down on the demonstrations.

The Peninsula Shield-backed security forces faced citizens with bombs and toxic gas, which injures a number of participants, including a serious injury by a sound grenade the forces fired at one citizen’s face.

Despite more than a week passed on imposing the siege, the troops are still stationed in the vicinity of the region and its main and secondary entrances, accompanied with patrols of raids involving helicopters, horrifying incursions and illegal arrests, according to human rights organizations.

Al-Khalifa forces have also tightened the noose by banning food ammunitions and ambulances from entering Eker.

Legal sources confirmed that troops are surrounding the entire area from all sides turning it into a big prison, which reveals official organized targeting under the policy of collective punishment. …source

Int’l silence gives Al Khalifa free hand to suppress Bahrainis: Lawmaker
26 October, 2012 – PressTV

The deadly silence of the international community has given the Al Khalifa regime freedom to continue suppressing and killing people and … they keep [creating] human rights catastrophes by attacking defenseless people.”

An Iranian lawmaker has censured the international community’s silence on the killing and suppressing of Bahrainis by ruling Al Khalifa regime.

“The deadly silence of the international community has given the Al Khalifa regime freedom to continue suppressing and killing people and … they keep [creating] human rights catastrophes by attacking defenseless people,” Hossein Sobhani-Nia, member of Majlis (parliament) Presiding Board, said on Friday.

He pointed to the killing of Bahrainis and the siege of the village of al-Eker by the Bahraini regime forces and said the slaughter of children and women in Bahrain will be registered in the black record of the so-called advocates of human rights.

The Iranian lawmaker said that the Bahraini regime has violated the very basic civil rights of its citizens by killing the Shias, and added that Al Khalifa seeks to remove the community from the political scene.

Sobhani-Nia said the crackdown on Bahrainis may delay the realization of the people’s legitimate demands but will eventually lead to the final victory of the popular movement.

The village of al-Eker has been blockaded since late last Thursday when a policeman was killed in a bomb blast there.

Since then, clashes have been reported between Saudi-backed regime forces and protesters trying to enter the besieged village, which is located some 20 kilometers south of the capital Manama.

According to authorities, seven people are held over the blast. A government statement says that checkpoints have been set up in the search for other possible suspects.

Bahrain’s revolution began in mid-February 2011, when the people, inspired by the popular revolutions that toppled the dictators of Tunisia and Egypt, started holding massive demonstrations.

The Bahraini government promptly launched a brutal crackdown on the peaceful protests and called in Saudi-led Arab forces from neighboring Persian Gulf states to help crack down on the demonstrations. …more

EU condemns mounting violence in Bahrain
24 October, 2012 – al Khalifa Fantasy News

Brussels, Oct. 24 (BNA)— High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission Catherine Ashton denounced today violence in Bahrain which killed recently a security officer and left another seriously injured.

She said in a statement issued by her Spokesperson that “violence puts at risk the national reconciliation process in Bahrain, to which the European Union has expressed its support on several occasions.”

She stressed she is following up with deep concern the escalation of violence in Bahrain, adding that the EU “urges once again all sections of the Bahraini society to contribute to dialogue and national reconciliation in a peaceful and constructive manner, without any further delay.”

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