Robert Fisk The Independent
Christopher Hill is the former U.S. deputy secretary of state for East Asia who served as ambassador to Iraq. It was a very obedient little diplomatic eloquent. Then the other day wrote that "the notion of a dictator who claims the sovereign right to abuse of its people has become unacceptable. "Yes, but Hill did not mention what happens if you live in Bahrain. In this small island, a Sunni monarchy rules caliphs formed by the Shiite majority, which has responded to protests democratic with death sentences, mass arrests, punishments in prison doctors allowed patients died after protests and an "invitation" to the Saudi forces enter the country.
rulers have also destroyed dozens of Shia mosques throughout the zeal of a hijacker of 9 / 11. At the same time, remember that most of the murderers of September 11 were certainly Saudis. What reaction we have before this? Silence. U.S. media silence, silence in most of the European press, the silence of our beloved CamerClegg (referring to the Prime Minister and British Foreign Minister, respectively, David Cameron and Nick Clegg, N T) and the White House. And what's even more shameful silence of the Arabs who know who to look good, and this also means silence from Al Jazeera. They often show up in their programming in English and Arabic, which is otherwise excellent, but omitted to mention that Bahrain is embarrassing, like a stain on the dignity of excrement that have contributed to the work of journalism in the Middle East. The emir of Qatar, whom I know and feel very nice, should not thus humiliate his television empire. CamerClegg
silent, of course, because Bahrain is one of our "friends" in the Persian Gulf region, an insatiable arms buyer, home to thousands of British expatriates who, during the mini revolution in the country's Shiites, spent their time writing offensive letters to local newspapers loyal to the caliphate to accuse Western journalists. As for the protesters, a young Shiite remember who told me that if only the Crown Prince had been present at the Pearl Plaza to talk with the protesters, they would carried on the shoulders to travel all over the place. I believed him. But he did not appear. Instead destroying Shia mosques and said the protests were a plot by Iran, which was never the case, and destroyed the statue of the pearl in the center of the plaza, which destroyed part of the history of his own country.
not say what the U.S. president, Barack Obama, has his own reasons for silence. Bahrain is the headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet and the Americans do not want to have to leave their comfortable port (though without any difficulty they might depart to the United Arab Emirates or Qatar at the time they wish). They also have all intend to defend the mythical Bahrain Iranian aggression.
Therefore, we will not see Hillary Clinton, always so eager to insult the Assad family, who have nothing bad to say about the caliphs. Why should I? Do not we all in debt to the Arab Gulf? They are honorable people and when criticized, it does so in good faith. But in the case of Bahrain, not even that. Silent. Remain silent even when students Bahrani in Britain were deprived of their scholarships granted by the government because they protested outside the embassy in London. Shame on CamerClegg. Bahrain
never had a reputation as a "friend" of the West, but that I like to be present. More than 20 years, anyone who protested against the rule of the royal family was in danger of being tortured in the barracks of the police security forces. The captain of this body was a former British police Special Branch, which was an expert torturer pernicious Jordanian army major.
When I posted their names, I was rewarded with a cartoon in the government newspaper Al Jaleej, which drew me like a mad dog. Rabid dogs, as everyone knows, must be exterminated. It was joke, it was a threat. However, the Al Khalifa has no problem with the opposition newspaper, Al Wasat. Arrested one of its founders, Karim Fajrawi, on 5 April. Died in police custody a week later. Spent 10 days and arrested Haidar columnist Naimi, who is not been heard from since then.
Again, silence CamerClegg, Obama, Clinton and the rest. The arrest of Shiite Muslim doctors let their patients die, patients who were injured by "security forces" is even more vile. I was in the hospital when admitted patients. The reaction of physicians was horror mixed with fear. Never before had seen gunshot wounds fired at close range. They have now been arrested, both doctors and patients that were taken from their hospital beds. If this happened in Damascus, Homs, Hama and Aleppo, the voices of CamerClegg, Obama and Clinton we would be ringing in the ears. But in the case of Bahrain it is not. Silence.
Four men have been sentenced to death in a closed court martial for killing two policemen Bahrani. Her "confessions" were broadcast on television, Soviet style. Not a word of CamerClegg, Obama or Clinton.
What is this nonsense? I will tell you. It has nothing to do with the people of Bahrain or the Kalifa. It has to do with our fear of Saudi Arabia, ie, that the case revolves around our oil. It is our absolute refusal to remember that the 9 / 11 was committed by a majority of Saudis supported attacking the Taliban, bin Laden was Saudi, and that the most cruel of Islam from Saudi Arabia, the land of beheadings and severed hands.
has to do with a conversation I had with an official-Bahrani an honest and decent man, in which he wondered why the Prime Minister of Bahrain could not be elected by the majority Shiite population. "The Saudis will never allow it," he said. Yes, talking about our other friends, the Saudis.
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translation for La Jornada: Gabriela Fonseca http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2011/05/15/index.php?section=opinion&article=025a1mun
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