Bahrain Security Forces indiscriminate murder of children in reckless abuse of riot control agents

Children in Bahrain under the mercy of regime’s terror & violence
Shia Post – 5 February, 2013

The regime in Bahrain continues to attack and kill children, the latest victim was the 8 year old Qassim Habib Jaffar Abdullah Marzooq, who died a few days ago. The child lived in one of Bahrain’s many villages subjected to the regime forces’ showering of toxic gas canisters imposing collective punishment on everyone in those villages including children.

Bahrain children’s childhood is spoiled by the regime’s continuous violations, including arbitrary arrests of children, followed by fabricated accusations, which in many cases seemed obviously unrealistic and did not suit their ages. The 11 year old, Ali Hasan for example, was detained more than one month in relation to fabricated accusations against him.

The regime forces deliberately throw and fire toxic gas grenades on private homes in densely populated areas in order to cause as many casualties as possible. Such inhumane attacks on homes have resulted in tens of cases of death, as it becomes impossible for children and older people to breathe, having been exposed to toxic gas in confined places.

Other children lost their lives in cruel and brutal direct attacks perpetrated by the regime forces.

Ali Abbas Radhi, aged 16, was another victim of Bahrain regime’s brutality against citizens. Ali lost his life when the regime forces blocked all roads leading to a central weekly prayer and attacked worshippers who attempted to reach the mosque.

Other children were directly targeted with birdshot by the regime forces from close range. Ali Hussain Ni’ma, 17, was killed in cold blood in a neighborhood Saddad, south west of the capital Manama in September 2012. The regime forces had brutally beaten him before they had shot him dead.

In August 2012, the regime forces also fired birdshot from close range at Hussam al-Haddad, aged 16. His body was torn with the scattered pellets that dug deep into his flesh. Hussam was then brutally beaten to death and his body was abducted.

Children in Bahrain have suffered a big share of the regime’s killings, arrests, attacks, and all sorts of violations amidst a systematic suppressive policy which does not exclude children. The ratio of violations against children in Bahrain is considered to be one of the highest in the Arab Spring countries.

A four year old child sustained birdshot injuries when the regime forces conducted their collective punishment against the residents and citizens in the village of Dair in June 2012.

During the past two years, a big number of children have been injured, and a number of them were killed. In two similar but separate incidents, both taken place in Sitra island, the regime forces fired teargas canisters at children aged around 15, Ali al-Shaikh and Sayed Hashim Saeed both dropped dead at the spot. Sayed Ahmed Shams, also 15 years old, lost his life when the regime forces fired at him in the face. Ahmed al-Qattan, 16, was another victim of the regime, he too was killed with birdshot, an internationally banned weapon. Ali Baddah, aged 16, was murdered in a horrible and cruel incident, when the regime forces drove over his body to a wall killing him instantly. …source