Bahrain culture of Police impunity, enabling brutal human rights abuse, built around Foreign National Police Force

Bahraini Opposition Figure: Foreigners Constitute 90% of al-Khalifa Security Forces
2 February, 2013 – FARS

TEHRAN (FNA)- 90% of the forces used by al-Khalifa regime to suppress countrywide protests are foreign nationals, a Bahraini opposition figure and journalist revealed on Saturday.

“The regime which speaks about the dual-nationality of the opposition has brought thousands of people from other countries, including Pakistan and other Asian countries and Arab states like Yemen, to Bahrain and gives them Bahrain’s citizenship and employs them in the army,” Mohammad al-Moussavi told FNA.

He said that 90% of the security forces in Bahrain are foreigners hired by the al-Khalifa regime to suppress the people, adding that the remaining 10% are Sunnis who fight against the majority Shiites.

In Bahrain, protesters and police clash almost daily as demonstrations are banned.

Anti-government protesters have been holding peaceful demonstrations across Bahrain since mid-February 2011, calling for an end to the al-Khalifa dynasty’s over-40-year rule, end of discrimination, establishment of justice and a democratically-elected government as well as freedom of detained protesters.

Violence against the defenseless people escalated after a Saudi-led conglomerate of police, security and military forces from the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) member states – Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar – were dispatched to the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom on March 13, 2011, to help Manama crack down on peaceful protestors.

So far, tens of people have been killed, hundreds have gone missing and thousands of others have been injured. …source