Middle East Focus: A Blood Red Valentine’s Day Coming to Bahrain…………….

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A Blood Red Valentine’s Day Coming to Bahrain…………….

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About the meeting in Saudi Arabia between King Abdullah and King (formerly shaikh) Hamad of Bahrain. The Wahhhabi king has summoned his Bahraini satrap to al-Jnadriya. It has nothing to do with some kind of brotherly or sisterly love between the two kings as their official media repeat.
What is on their minds, both kings but especially the Bahraini king is Valentine’s Day, February 14. That will be the first anniversary of the start of the people’s uprising in Bahrain against repression and discrimination and the policy of apartheid that has kept a majority of the people of Bahrain as second class citizens (in fact third class citizens, after the imported foreign mercenaries). The regime imported mercenaries from as far away as Pakistan and Jordan and Syria and former Iraqi Ba’athists to crush the uprising. It didn’t work and the Saudi forces invaded to shore up the regime and keep apartheid in place.
One year later, many civilian deaths later, many prisoners later, many tortures later, many destroyed houses of worship later, and the people are still insistent on their demands for freedom and equality. The regime is forced to keep the people away from the center of Manama, from the site of Pearl Square (Lulu), and to lay siege to native villages with its mercenaries and invaders. Arrests and kangaroo trials and teargas attacks are a daily thing in Bahrain.
February 14, Valentine’s Day, 2012 will be a red one in Bahrain. Not from roses of love, but from the blood of the people that the hateful regime will be shedding again. As it has been doing for a year now.
That is what the Saudi king summoned his Bahraini satrap to discuss. How to crush the spirit of a majority of the people of Bahrain, once and for all? I doubt that they will find the answer.
Cheers
mhg

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