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Bahraini Forces Resume Brutal Crackdown on Protesters
Al-Manar News – 8 December, 2011

Bahraini security forces attacked peaceful protesters with rubber bullets and tear gas as they were heading to the Pearl Square. Hundreds of protesters marched to the site from the village of Sanabis. When the protesters got close to the site of the former roundabout, security forces reportedly fired tear gas and rubber bullets, President of the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights, Mohammed al-Maskati, said.

“There are a lot of injuries. People are trying to transfer them to the closest houses to treat them, there are nurses who are volunteers”, Al-Jazeera channel quoted Maskati as saying.

REGIME BRUTALITY HAS NO LIMITS!
The incident comes few hours after the funeral of a woman, who was brutally hit by regime forces at the head, has died of injuries.

The victim, Zahra Saleh Haidar, 27, was martyred of her injuries suffered after regime forces hit her by an iron rod hurled at the head during a peaceful anti-government rally in the village of Daih on November 18.

Scores of protesters were martyred in the brutal crackdown launched by regime forces on protesters.
Hundreds others have been arrested, along with thousands of public sector workers sacked for supporting anti-regime protests.

Bahrainis have been staging anti-government protests demanding an end to the rule of Al Khalifa dynasty since mid-February.

On November 23, the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry, set up to investigate reports of rights abuse during the crackdown, announced that the regime had used ”excessive force” to crush the uprising. …source