Zionist-backed Al Kalifa iron curtain for a religious cleansing

Zionist-backed Bahraini dictator’s failure to address the real issues of the country roused the angry reaction of the people on Thursday, May 3.

The dictator exaggerated the value of this step and ordered the gathering of his stooges to listen to his “historic” reform program delivering a set of hollow statements that indicated political and human bankruptcy of a tyrant who lost the battle and is making last ditch to save his rule and honor.

The superficial changes dealt with technical matters but avoided the core issues at stake; How should the country be ruled? And who has the legitimacy to rule? And how these changes were imposed after the failure of the “dialogue” he had called for and for which he had appointed 300 of his stooges and 25 from the political societies.

When Al Wefaq realized the pity state of the “dialogue”, it withdrew from it but presented its views on reforms, none of which have been implemented.

While the political societies have ridiculed these changes, the revolutionaries have called for the intensification of the struggle to remove the Puppet Al Kalifa hereditary dictatorship from power.

Subsequently Reporters Without Borders issued a statement condemning the Puppet Al Kalifa family’s last-minute withdrawal of the permission it had previously given for a visit by a delegation of NGOs that defend freedom of expression.

Spurious grounds were used to prevent the visit, which had been scheduled to take place from 5 to 10 May.

The Bahraini authorities often reiterate their “respect for the principles of human rights and freedoms within the framework of law and order and justice,” but clearly do not include freedom of information.

“The withdrawal of permission just a few days before World Press Freedom Day is indicative of the Bahraini government’s desire to maintain a news blackout on the continuing crackdown and its limitless hypocrisy towards the international community,” Reporters Without Borders said.

The delegation was to have consisted of representatives of various free speech NGOs affiliated to the London-based International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX), including Reporters Without Borders, Freedom House, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights, Index on Censorship, PEN International and the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Freelance journalist Clare Morgana Gillis was also to have accompanied the delegation.

The Bahraini Interior Ministry and information affairs authority declined to give any comments on the incident.

The situation has remained tense as the people continued their protest day and night. The 14th February Alliance has spearheaded the revolution and would not relent on its pledge to take the struggle forward until people’s demands are achieved.

The ۱۴th February Youth Alliance viewed these “changes” as “confirmation that the Al Kalifa regime is incapable of reforming itself or being reformed, therefore, it has to go”.