Bahrainis demanding the most fundamental rights: Ibrahim Moussawi

A political analyst tells Press TV that killing one demonstrator here and running over another one by a vehicle is not going to affect the morale aspect of the Bahrainis and they are determined to continue the revolution.

He also added that the Bahraini people were demanding their most fundamental human rights from the Al Khalifa regime.

The comments came after a new footage showed pro-regime militiamen in Bahrain being sent to the streets to confront anti-regime protesters. The video, which was released by Bahrain’s opposition activists, shows a protester being run over by a vehicle of the militiamen. The vehicle suddenly speeds up and hits the young man, dragging him along.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Ibrahim Moussawi, political analyst, to further discuss the issue. What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.

Press TV: How worrying is this new trend that we are seeing the Bahraini monarchy using this trend of militiamen if that is what it is that we are seeing on the streets playing out there?

Moussawi: Well first of all we have to know that this is not going to affect the morale aspect of the demonstrators. This is not going to reflect any negative way against them.

It has been established already that two years the uprising in Bahrain, the intifada in Bahrain, the revolution, the peaceful revolution and the continuous and the permanent demonstrations by the people of Bahrain from all sects, from all confessions continues to appear on a daily basis and many times a day against the regime and against the crackdown of the police and the different security apparatuses in this kingdom.

They are trying and they are pushing hard in order to obtain, in order to gain, and in order to have their own basic rights that have been denied since long time ago.

Killing one demonstrator here, running over another one by a vehicle there, this is not going to affect it. The people in Bahrain know very well and they are determined to continue the revolution, to continue their peaceful demonstrations because they know they are asking and they are demanding basic rights that nobody should argue and they should be given these rights without doing all of these things.

The kind of reforms they are asking for, the kind of reforms and the kind of change they are asking for is being enshrined in the laws everywhere and now when the regime continues to do the same very things that he started to do since the beginning of the uprising, this tells one thing– that this is a bankruptcy in a political level, that they are broking, they are out of any creative solution.

Moreover it casts a lot of question marks and doubts over the initiative in order to make this kind of dialogue between the opposition and the government.

If they really want to have a [fruitful] and fruity results, they should not resort into these kinds of matters and these kinds of measures and it is not going to affect negatively the morale of the [demonstrators]. They are going to continue their upheaval as long as they do not get their rights.

Press TV: I want to ask you about the United States stance on all this. It has been said in the past the United States may be losing its patience with the Bahraini monarchy especially with these kinds of images that keep coming out of the country. Do you agree with that?

Moussawi: I am so sorry, I am so sorry, are you joking? I need to put it this way. The United States is going to lose its patience with these kinds of images? Do we believe our ears? Do we understand that? I mean where are these United States and governments and the administration, where are they from Palestine? Where are they from different [parts of] the world? Unless if we want to believe that this is a so-called democratic and human rights loving state. I mean the United States itself has revealed that they killed more than 6,000 by the drones, unmanned drones in Yemen and different parts and many, so many of them are civilians.

I believe it is a kind of switching the roles, it is a kind of laying the blame here or there but I do not believe that the Bahrainis or anyone should expect the United States or the American administration to stop supporting the Bahraini kingdom. I believe this is a kind of diplomacy or whatever.