Bahrainis subjected to bloody attacks by Death Squads

A young Bahraini was yesterday dragged by members of the Al Khlaifa Death Squads from his work and led away to the torture chambers. Hassan Salman Bu Ali, 26, from Al Ne’aim, was manhandled by the mercenaries as he was taken from his office and subjected to horrific treatment by the torturers.

Last night the ruling family issued an order to keep him behind bars for one week as he is investigated for allegedly revealing the names of torturers. The Al Khalifa has been running a secret web of informers, torturers and killers for the past few years as it faced insurrection by the natives calling for a people’s constitution and an end to the policies of genocide against the native Baharna.

Meanwhile several human rights organisations have condemned the vicious attack by members of the Death Squads on jaffar Kadhem, 32, who is still receiving treatment at the Salmaniya Hospital. Human Rights Watch (HRW) has issued a strong indictment against the dictatorial regime which has imposed a blackout on the crime committed against Mr Kadhem who had received horrific injuries to the face and body. In its statement released two days ago, HRW said: “Bahrain should immediately begin a thorough and impartial investigation into the abduction and torture of the human rights activist Ja’far Kadhim Ibrahim”. It said the government should make public the results of the investigation into Ibrahim’s abduction and beating.

Yesterday, Front Line issued a similar statement in which it said that it was “deeply concerned following reports of the abduction and beating of human rights defender Mr Jaafar Kadhim in Manama, on 7 May 2009”. It called on the authorities in Bahrain to: 1.Carry out an immediate, thorough and impartial investigation into the abduction and beating of Jaafar Kadhim, with a view to publishing the results and bringing those responsible to justice in accordance with international standards; 2.Guarantee the security and physical and psychological integrity of Jaafar Kadhim; 3.Ensure that all human rights defenders in Bahrain, carrying out their legitimate work in defence of human rights, are available to operate free of restrictions and reprisals.

To counter these demands by the international bodies, the ruling Al Khalifa family has attempted to assassinate the victim while he laid down at his hospital bed. In the past two days, at least two attempts were made on his life. In the first attack, the hospital guard shouted loudly forcing them to flee. The guard, who is believed to be from the town of Hidhafs, was later summoned and warned of serious consequences if he resisted the Death Squads again. Yesterday, however, they managed to reach his bed and threatened him with violent retribution if he described to outsiders what had happened to him.

Meanwhile, Mr Abbas Al Ekri was yesterday taken to a kangaroo court, presided over by one of the Al Khalifa executioners, to answer for taking another victim of the Al Khalifa terrorism to hospital. Last week he took Ali Sa’ad, who is badly burnt and blinded in an assassination attempt that killed his companion in the car, Moosa Jaffar Mulla Khalil. The two were in the car which had been booby-trapped by the Death Squads. While Moosa was martyred instantly by the powerful, professionally-made bomb, Ali Sa’ad was taken to hospital by the defendant who happened to be passing by.

Nothing has been of the two since the blast. Nothing has been heard of both in the past two days.

Bahrain’s military dictator, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, has now decided to take our country into another phase of bloody confrontations, assassinations and collective punishment. He has imported thousands of former Saddam’s soldiers and spies to carry out assassinations, car bombs and wage a sectarian war against the majority Baharna population. A plot has been uncovered to assassinate a leading religious figure who is teaching at the Islamic Seminary in Najaf, Iraq. Ayatullah Sheikh Mohammad Sanad was to be killed by a terrorist group operating in Iraq, with links to the Al Khalifa family in Bahrain. The senior Ayatullah has been warned about the plot by informed sources and extra cautious measures have been implemented to protect him.

The people of Bahrain have, once again, appealed to the international community to intervene to protect them from the violent and terrorist onslaught by the Al Khalifa rulers.

Bahrain Freedom Movement
15th May 2009