HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES, TORTURE AND REPRESSION IN BAHRAIN AND SOUTH ARABIA ARE ACCEPTED AND SUPPORTED BY THE USA AND THEIR SERVES!
Washington is trying to fend off charges that it has backed Arab pro-democracy uprisings elsewhere, while condoning the Saudi-backed crackdown in Bahrain, a long-standing Gulf ally.
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BAHRAIN: TIME TO SUPPORT REGIME CHANGE AND END OCCUPATION
07/11/2011
Proceedings of seminar hosted by Lord Avebury, Vice-chairman of the Parliamentary Human Rights Group on 1st November, 2011.
Despite the lack of support from the West, the people of Bahrain have not been deterred from pursuing regime change which started on 14th February 2011 and is still continuing. The Al Khalifa regime, propped up by the Saudi army has failed to impress their allies with their continued repression and lack of any reforms.
What is the reality on the ground, the prospects of a solution and the likely outcome?
LORD AVEBURY: The Secretary General of NATO was quoted on BBC Radio last night as saying that regime change in Libya was necessary for their mandate of protecting civilians to be implemented
(foto from LIBYA S.O.S. - Example of NATO's attack on west Tripoli - 21 June 2011).
What’s different in Bahrain? Nobody expects NATO to go in there and set off a war against the GCC, but we could start by asking the Saudi Arabians and the UAE to withdraw so that the people of Bahrain can exercise the same right of self-determination as the people of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and we hope, Palestine and Syria.
So what are the steps that could lead to the liberation of the people of Bahrain from the yoke of the al-Khalifa oppressors?
Whatever the Bassiouni Commission may say, the people have no confidence in their inquiry, Comments made by Cherif Bassiouni himself exonerating the king and the Prime Minister from responsibility for the extrajudicial killings, tortures, detention without trial, military courts, and manipulated court proceedings were highly improper and cast doubt on the independence of the whole inquiry.
In addition, we don’t know what the final deadline is for the scope of the inquiry.
We certainly hope it will deal with the life sentences passed on leaders of the opposition and human rights activists, many of whom we have welcomed at previous meetings here in the Palace of Westminster: Abdul Wahab Hussain; Hasan Mushaima, who is being denied medical treatment for cancer; Mohammed Habib al-Muqdad, who was held incommunicado and tortured both physically and psychologically over several months as I expect to be confirmed by the doctors appointed by the Basiouni Commission; Abduljalil al-Muqdad; Abduljalil al-Singace, whose crutches were taken from him in prison so that he was forced to crawl along the passage to get to the loo Saeed Mirza al-Nouri, and the leading human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, whose whole family has been targeted by the regime whether they have been involved in the struggle or not.
Yesterday we were asked what would be the one thing the Foreign Office could do to help the campaign for democracy and freedom in Bahrain. We should demand that all these and the hundreds of other political prisoner victims of the al-Khalifas’ malice be unconditionally released and compensated for the injuries inflicted on them by the Government’s torturers.
DR FOUAD AL IBRAHIM: Saudi intervention must end: The Arab Spring is undergoing a crucial turning point as the foreign intervention in the revolution in Yemen, Bahrain, Syria and Libya became a prime factor of the political impasse and the continued bloodshed.
In the eyes of many people in the Arab world, the foreign intervention in the Arab Spring tends to provide all possible support to the despots in the region, and not to encourage the process of democratization.
With the Saudi military intervention in Bahrain on March 17th, Western governments, the international community, and international institutions such as Security Council failed to commit themselves to their values and to condemn the Saudi regime and exercise the necessary pressure on their Gulf allies to withdraw their forces from the island.
The failure extends also to their political attitude towards the brutal regime of Al-Khalifa and its severe violations of human rights. Above all, unlike the open and unlimited support to the protesters in Syria, these parties turned a blind eye and sometimes gave implicit and moral support to the dictatorships in the Gulf region, namely GCC states.
The recent EU’S condemnation 
of the Saudi military occupation of Bahrain and the call for the complete withdrawal of all foreign forces is highly appreciated by the both the Bahraini people and the Arab peoples in general, taking into consideration the stereotypical view that Gulf despots rely on their Western protectors to pursue their despotic policies.
In light of the recent development, namely the EU’s condemnation of Saudi occupation of Bahrain and the call for the withdrawal of all foreign forces, it is the time for Preside Obama’s administration to take a long awaited step, and follow the same path as the EU in respect of condemning the Saudi military intervention in Bahrain. The US ongoing allegations of supporting the pro-democratic movements are now tested, which need to interpret words into deeds and to encourage democratic transformation in the GCC states.
Indeed, with the success of Egyptian revolution in February 2011, it became clear that Obama’s administration tended to pacify the Saudi regime at the expense of the will of the peoples in Yemen, Bahrain and elsewhere in the region, including Saudi Arabia.
Since the beginning of the Arab uprisings, the US and European governments appeared to have been attempting to contain the consequences of these uprisings without regard to their commitment towards freedoms and human rights. The most frustrating element in this respect is the collaboration between the agents of democracy and agents of dictatorship, leading to the abortion of pro-democratic movements in the Gulf region.
As the Saudi regime is considered a complete partner in the crushing of the uprisings in Bahrain and Yemen and a prime instigator of uprisings in Syria and Iraq, the US administration turned a blind eye to the repressions of women, whose basic rights were severely denied, including the right to drive, let alone the right to vote. The US administration also ignores the Saudi regime’s harsh measures against freedom seekers in the country. There are some 30,000 prisoners in Saudi Arabia, most of whom are without legal representation and defined charges. Those who criticise the regime’s policies find themselves behind the bars. Three young people were recently arrested following the broadcast of the so called (We were deceived) program about poverty in the country.
Many cases of human rights violations in Saudi Arabia occurred in the course of the Arab Spring and could be easily observed. My understanding is these violations would not happen if the US administration adopted a different approach to the regional issues and relinquished its soft attitude towards its allied dictators in GCC states
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In search of stability, prosperity, and security in the Gulf region, US administration and the West as a whole are in need of a profound vision based of the geopolitics realities, the socioeconomic developments and the growing awareness of freedoms and rights among the majority youth, who represent the main force of change.
In summary, the foreign factor is playing an undermining role in the Arab Spring. As a result, more victims, economic loses, and social and political instability may continue should the US and EU allies offer the despots the military and security equipments to suppress the demands for democracy.
Aimed at essential transformation to democratic states, the peoples in the GCC states would like to see a creative initiative, leading to the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Bahrain and the region as a whole, and the revival of the initiative of the democratization process in the region.
DR ABDUL HAMID DASHTI. Dr Abdul Hamid Dashti, the renowned international lawyer delivered a short speech. He said that it is now eight months since the Bahraini revolution started. I like to highlight this peaceful movement which took place at the same time as other revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, hoping that the world would support it. But that support never came because of double standards, the narrow interests of some countries and the oil money of the Saudis. All attempts are made to abort it while it is presented in false descriptions. Bahraini people have been denied their basic rights.
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