Amy Goodman: Barack Obama must speak out on Bahrain bloodshed

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Three days after Hosni Mubarak resigned as the long-standing dictator in Egypt, people in the small Gulf state of Bahrain took to the streets, marching to their version of Tahrir: Pearl Square, in the capital city of Manama. Bahrain has been ruled by the same family, the House of Khalifa, since the 1780s – more than 220 years. Bahrainis were not demanding an end to the monarchy, but for more representation in their government.

One month into the uprising, Saudi Arabia sent military and police forces over the 16-mile causeway that connects the Saudi mainland to Bahrain, an island. Since then, the protesters, the press and human-rights organisations have suffered increasingly violent repression.

One courageous young Bahraini pro-democracy activist, Zainab al-Khawaja, has seen the brutality up close. To her horror, she watched her father, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, a prominent human-rights activist, be beaten and arrested.

Full story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/apr/13/barack-obama-bahrain-bloodshed

[daa]

1. Look he (Hillary) made a deal with the House of Saud

you support the Libya no fly zone and we will let you take care of Bahrain. Game over.

[AndyTiedye]

4. The House of Saud Does What it Wants

I don't think there was any deal. The Saudis told Hillary that they were going in.
What were we gonna do about that?

[virgogal]

2. Obama should have stayed away from the Libyan problem and also

this one.

My God,we can't take care of it all----we have enough on our plate.

[Jefferson23]

3. K&R n/t