al Khalifa regime crackdown scatters burning embers as fire of Revolution burns brighter

Bahraini Opposition Figure: Suppression of Protesters Backfires
02/11/2011 – Bahrain Freedom Movement

(FNA)- A prominent Bahraini political activist and opposition figure blasted the continued suppression of peaceful protesters in the tiny Persian Gulf island and warned the Al Khalifa regime that its suppressive tactics would backfire. “Bahrain’s authorities are seeking to bring the nation to their knees through suppressive actions but the regime’s policy will backfire,” member of the Society for Supporting Bahraini People Qassem al-Hashemi told FNA on Wednesday.

He lashed out at Al Khalifa’s brutal behavior towards protesting women, and stated, “Detention and torture of women by Bahrain ruling regime means crossing all the redlines and would be a milestone signifying the end of the Al Khalifa regime.” Hashemi condemned the violation of women rights by the Manama regime and reiterated, “The Bahraini regime has turned the page for its own collapse through such aggressive actions and its end and collapse is now definite.”

Earlier, the Muslim Women Movement in a recent statement had protested against the brutal and cruel behavior of the Bahraini regime towards women in the country, and revealed that the Al-Khalifa regime has imprisoned innocent pregnant women in horrible dungeons. “They keep pregnant women in terrifying prisons, martyr their husbands under torture and attack people’s homes at night and create panic and horror,” the statement said in April, addressing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.

The statement condemned the silence shown by the international organizations on the massacre of the Bahraini and Yemeni people by their tyrannical rulers, and said “Hundreds of the Yemeni and Bahraini women are in prison for the ambitions of their bullying rulers.” Anti-government protesters have been holding peaceful demonstrations across Bahrain since mid-February, calling for an end to the Al Khalifa dynasty’s over-40-year rule.

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 to help Manama crack down on peaceful protestors.

Yet, protests and rallies continued throughout the country in defiance of the martial law put in place by Manama since last month. People have announced that they will continue protests until the regime collapses. ….source