Bahrain monarchy will never end its torture and killing policy

A political analyst tells Press TV that the Al-Khalifa monarchy will never end its torture and killing policy across Bahrain.

This is while Dr. Fatima Haji, a female Bahraini doctor says the Al Khalifa regime forces have ‘severely’ tortured her and several other doctors, who treated injured anti-regime protesters, in order to extract false confessions. The confession they were forced to sign said that they were in possession of arms in the hospital where they worked and that they were trying to topple the Manama regime.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Redwan Rizk, Middle East Speaker, to further discuss the issue. What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Quite a hearing story about this female Bahraini medic’s experience in Bahraini jails, do you think that this will make any difference as far as the revolution goes?

Rizk: No not at all. I think the regime will proceed with its policy in torturing and killing the Bahraini people who did not yet use any violence against the regime and they are only protesting to gain some of their rights which they deserve and they have lost it for decades and this brutal regime is not willing to recognize the rights of the Bahraini people.

Now I believe that Bahrain is under full occupation of Saudi Arabia and full and high influence of Qatar, Bahrain contains or it is the homeland of the Fifth Fleet of the American Army which also gives it a lot of importance for the USA in the [Persian] Gulf region.

Bahrain I believe cannot control itself anymore, now it is under control of the foreign countries–Saudi Arabia and USA–so that is why the king himself must understand that his time is over and now he is playing in the wasted time and must understand that sooner or later he is going to leave, they are going to fall and this regime with its policy now jailing people and freeing the medical or clearing the medical groups will not justify what he did for the past two years and what he has been doing for many, many years even before the independence of Bahrain.

Now people in Bahrain or especially one of the leaders in the opposition, Ali Khawaja, has been with his daughter on hunger strike and they could die out of that, so even with that the Bahraini regime is not paying any attention to these kinds of incidents.

So Bahrain is going to face even worse situations in the near future and these peaceful protesting in Bahrain I believe cannot achieve anything at all because the decision is not in Bahrain itself , the decision and the control of Bahrain is coming from outside and influenced by other countries.

So that is why I believe that the Bahraini people have a long journey to gain freedom from this brutal regime.

Press TV: I want to ask you about the Bahrain’s treatment of doctors specially because this is another medic who has been tortured and other medics have been tortured and arrested in the past. What does that show about the desperation of the monarchy?

Rizk: Well I believe the Bahraini regime is very desperate to eliminate any protesting against it and wants to show the world that Bahrain, and as we hear here in Beirut or in the region, the voice of the Bahraini regime is showing us as if nothing is happening there and the Bahraini people are living in excellent conditions and the situation in Bahrain itself is very calm.

But we know this is not true, this is nothing but lies. Bahrain clearing the medics as you said or as we said that clearing the medics from being jailed and trying to show that it is a merciful regime and not capturing the oppositions, I believe the oppositions have suffered from the brutality of this regime and they are being arrested for no reason and being sent to jails without any trial or fair trial at least and they are being killed by just cold blood from its police trying to show the world that it is very democratic…