Democracy Now!
"Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous joins us to discuss his
recent trip to Bahrain, where the Sunni monarchy continues its crackdown on a
two-year-old uprising. Since February 2011, at least 87 people have died at the
hands of U.S.-backed forces. While talks are taking place this week between the
Bahraini government and opposition groups, several of Bahrain’s leading human
rights defenders remain imprisoned. "Bahrain had the feeling of a country under occupation,"
Kouddous says of his visit. "There was helmeted riot police in full armor
wielding shotguns, tear gas, sound grenades, deployed around villages outside of
the capital. There was helicopters buzzing overhead conducting surveillance. ...
Many people lament there, from the opposition movement, that they have been
forsaken by the international community and forgotten by the world’s media for
this uprising that doesn’t get a lot of attention."....."
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