President Obama’s incompetence and moral bankruptcy killing Alkhawaja
editor: The al Khalifa regime continues to paint itself into a desperate corner. In “freeing” Alkhawaja their egos could not accept what they see as an opposition victory. Rather than make opportunity to open dialogue with the release of Alkhawaja and the rest of the opposition being held. The regime continues with it belligerent position toward the recommendations to release the 14 activists by its own “independent investigation” and the general consensus of legal and humanitarian calls throughout the international community.
In a defiant move to thwart Alkhawaja victory by death, the brutal regime has likely induced coma to keep Alkhawaja in a medically induced “vegetative state” or “coma vigil”, supplying nutrients necessary to keep him a live via “nasogastic feeding”. After four weeks of this kind of treatment he would be considered in a “persistent vegetative state” and some time after, he would be considered to be in a “continuous vegetative state”. All in a cruel bid for the regime to do it deems necessary to plan for the security and political consequences of Alkhawaja’s eventual death. This is an egregious moral crime, a violation of Alkhawja’s fundamental Human Rights and an indictment of the moral cowardice of the Khalif regime.
Since the United States is in the unique position of being a primary suitor to the regime and has provide weapons, technical and political expertise to salvage the defunct regime, it is increasing being drawn into the moral abyss of the regime. With a recent history of torture and drug experimentation on inmates at Guantanamo, torture and abuse at Abu Gruaib, US troops posing with their “kills” and body parts of enemy combatants, urinating on corpses of their enemies, burning of Qurans and countless numbers of innocents murdered via drone, it seems the medically induced coma and “force-feeding” of Alkhawaja will compel any moral retribution toward the regime from Obama administration, though many of us continue to hope to the contrary.
The moral crisis Obama is creating through negligent and reprehensible mismanagement of the military and foreign relations tolerance toward “friends” who engage in the these immoral acts will go down in history as one of the United State darkest hours. President Obama is surely emerging as perhaps the most incompetent as Commander and Chief in US history. His inability or unwillingness to assert a moral high-bar in foreign policy or military conduct has become an indictment of his reckless, negligent and contempt for human rights. President Obama is either morally bankrupt or simply being made to appear that way, through a naive ineptitude, as he is tossed about by the “bloody greed” that occupies Washington. Phlipn
Jailed Bahraini hunger striker ‘al-Khawaja’ drugged and force-fed, his wife says Bahrain
30 April, 2012 – Shia Post
Prominent jailed Bahraini human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja has been “drugged and force-fed” in the military hospital he is being held, his wife says.
“I went to see my husband today and he told me that he was drugged last Monday,” Khadija al-Mousawi said on Sunday.
Mousawi was allowed to visit her husband for the first time in two weeks on Sunday.
“After he woke up he found two IV (intravenous) injections in his arms and a feeding-tube down his nose. It was done against his will,” Mousawi said, adding that Khawaja is “weak but in good spirits.”
However, a spokesperson for the Bahrain Defense Forces Hospital claimed on Sunday the jailed activist “has not been force-fed or treated against his will.”
“At no time was he drugged or restrained,” claimed the Bahraini official, whose name was not mentioned in the news report.
Mousawi also said a doctor had told Khawaja that it was his duty to force-feed him to keep the activist alive, but her husband considered the matter as a violation of his rights.
“My husband told them he will only accept (the intravenous feeding) until his trial on Monday and depending on the outcome will decide what to do next.”
Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who holds dual Danish and Bahraini nationality, was given a life sentence in June 2011 over accusations of inciting protests against the Manama regime. …source
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