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Wed, 05/18/2011 - 14:15
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Kuwaiti Activist Deplores Deployment of Foreign Forces in Bahrain
TEHRAN,May 18(FNA)- A prominent Kuwaiti political activist dismissed deployment of foreign forces in Bahrain under the pretext of the Peninsula Shield Forces as an "illegal" move.
"Suppression of popular protests (in Bahrain) by foreign forces is not acceptable, and is illegal," Secretary-General of the Islamic Movement for National Solidarity in Kuwait Zahir Abdulhadi al-Mahmeed told FNA on Wednesday.
He underlined legitimacy of the demands raised by the Bahraini people in their uprising, and said people would certainly continue insisting on their demands despites the government's harsh crackdown.
"I believe that popular demands will be continued even if the number of foreign forces increases again," al-Mahmeed underscored.
He recalled the recent popular uprising in Egypt that forced the iron-fisted regime of Hosni Mubarak to retreat, and said people in Bahrain would continue protests until achieving victory.
Demonstrators in Bahrain have been demanding constitutional reforms as well as an end to the 230-year-old monarchy, with hundreds camping out peacefully in the capital since February 14.
Bahraini security forces have been brutally suppressing anti-government protesters. So far, at least 40 people have been killed, almost 100 have gone missing and about 1,000 others have been injured.
Violence against people escalated when the Saudi-led Peninsula Shield Forces deployed in Bahrain to intensify the crackdown on peaceful protesters.
Military analysts believe that deployment of the regional forces in Bahrain is completely illegal because the treaty signed among the six Persian Gulf Cooperation Council member states - Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Oman - on the deployment of Peninsula Shield Forces to defend the members against threats pertains to those situations when a member state comes under foreign invasion and not when that state is experiencing a peaceful uprising of its own people.
"Suppression of popular protests (in Bahrain) by foreign forces is not acceptable, and is illegal," Secretary-General of the Islamic Movement for National Solidarity in Kuwait Zahir Abdulhadi al-Mahmeed told FNA on Wednesday.
He underlined legitimacy of the demands raised by the Bahraini people in their uprising, and said people would certainly continue insisting on their demands despites the government's harsh crackdown.
"I believe that popular demands will be continued even if the number of foreign forces increases again," al-Mahmeed underscored.
He recalled the recent popular uprising in Egypt that forced the iron-fisted regime of Hosni Mubarak to retreat, and said people in Bahrain would continue protests until achieving victory.
Demonstrators in Bahrain have been demanding constitutional reforms as well as an end to the 230-year-old monarchy, with hundreds camping out peacefully in the capital since February 14.
Bahraini security forces have been brutally suppressing anti-government protesters. So far, at least 40 people have been killed, almost 100 have gone missing and about 1,000 others have been injured.
Violence against people escalated when the Saudi-led Peninsula Shield Forces deployed in Bahrain to intensify the crackdown on peaceful protesters.
Military analysts believe that deployment of the regional forces in Bahrain is completely illegal because the treaty signed among the six Persian Gulf Cooperation Council member states - Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Oman - on the deployment of Peninsula Shield Forces to defend the members against threats pertains to those situations when a member state comes under foreign invasion and not when that state is experiencing a peaceful uprising of its own people.
