US-backed Al-Khalifa Regime Kills Kids Before Eyes of Int’l Community

An 11-year-old boy was martyred in Bahrain yesterday as the international community continues its silence on the government forces’ brutalities and barbaric behavior towards the people.

Yaseen Jassim Al Asfoor, 11, is the latest martyr on the way to liberate Bahrain from the Al Khalifa and Al Saud occupation. Last month, he was exposed to intensive chemical gases fired into his house by the US and zionist-backed Al Khalifa mercenary forces. He was taken to hospital where his condition deteriorated further until his lungs collapsed. He remained in intensive care in the last three weeks.

He was martyred on Friday amid growing public anger at the way Bahrainis are being slaughtered by the murderous regime. This is the second martyr in a week. For the people, the killing of this boy has only confirmed the need to change the regime which is becoming increasingly vicious despite the calls for its own allies as well its investigation commission to change its track.

Salma Abdul Muhsin, an elderly Bahraini woman was martyred earlier in the week as a result of inhaling chemical gases fired by the Al Khalifa forces into her house. She became ill and was taken to hospital, where she died three days later. Another woman, Badria Ali, 59, had become so depressed by the arrest and torture of her son that she burnt herself to death last weekend. The two tragic events have highlighted the plight of the people under the Al Khalifa oppressive regime.

The forth martyr this month is the 22-years old young Bahraini who was brutally murdered by the zionist Bahraini regime Death Squads operated by the royal court. Yousuf Ahmad Mawali, 24, was kidnapped early on 11th January after leaving his home. His father reported him to the police later in the day and the officer in charge of Samaheej police station told him that Yousuf was at the Criminal Investigation Department in Manama. Three days later the police called the family to inform them that the body of their son had been found on a beach at Amwaj island. He had allegedly drowned. This lie was rejected outright by the family who has refused to sign a false death certificate stating the cause of the death as drowning.

The Al Khalifa dynasty has made it a condition that they would not hand over the body until the family signs the falsified document. The body remains at a cold store, contrary to Bahraini traditions and ethics which prefer fast burial of the dead in dignity and honor. A young man’s body has thus become a bargaining utility in the hands of a brutal regime.

The people’s determination to continue the revolution until the Al Khalifa hereditary dictatorship is overthrown has intensified in recent days. Yesterday the whole country was engulfed in thick smoke as Bahrainis sought to inform the international community that their revolution had come to remain and achieve its goals. The regime had organized an Air Show as a means of deception to the international community that all is stable and the people’s revolt had ended. The 14th February Alliance that had led the revolution called for a special country-wide event under the theme “The mourning of the sky”. The youth hurried to the streets lighting fires across the main road and creating pitch black smoke that was easily visible by those attending the air show more than fifteen miles away. The show is organized by the Farnborough International which said that the decision to go ahead with the show despite the ongoing crackdown was with the Al Khalifa, not with them. Major news agencies reported the event alongside the people’s revolution, a scenario that the Al Khalifa and the Al Saud would not have liked to emerge.

Meanwhile the daily and nightly protests had continued unabated. Each corner of the country has contributed on daily basis to the protests and demonstrations despite the unrestricted repression by the ruling Al Khalifa family, which is supported by the Saudi occupiers, Bahrain Freedom Movement said in a statement.

The standard slogan has remained a stark reminder that there is no way that Bahrainis will ever accept the present dictator exploiting his position to inflict maximum damage on the people. The call for an immediate end to the Al Khalifa hereditary dictatorship has become the standard slogan and it has become inconceivable that the two sides will live together again, the movement said.

Any hope of a political solution has been dashed by the dictator who delivered a speech this week calling on the people to stop their revolution and embrace the regime with little marginal changes to the Al Khalifa constitution. The situation was made worse by a statement from the Al Khalifa crown prince who confined any reform to what his father had announced, arguing that no political reforms could be offered outside the present political tools and mechanisms. Even those who had pinned hopes of reform on the Al Khalifa crown prince now feel that they had been betrayed by a cunning regime that is far from reforms.