Friday, April 22, 2011

Leading article: A blind eye in the West to repression in the Gulf



This is different to Libya because Bahrain is considered to be an important strategic ally



The Independent
Friday, 22 April 2011

"A state is engaged in violent repression; the ruling regime has forfeited its legitimacy; there are disturbing reports of civilian casualties. All this describes what is taking place in Bahrain. The fundamentals of the emergency in the small Gulf state are not so dissimilar from what is taking place in Libya. And yet whereas Muammar Gaddafi's vicious assault on his opponents last month galvanised the international community into protective action, the situation in Bahrain has gone more or less ignored in Western capitals....."

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