"The Bahraini nation will never be affected by al-Khalifa’s suppressive and savage behavior and will continue its revolution at any price by its life and material possibilities," Mahmoud al-Hashemi, a member of Bahrain’s Islamic Loyalty stream, told FNA on Sunday.
"The Al-Khalifa regime is not Sunni at all and it only incites Sunnis to stand against the Shiites to maintain its monarchy and provide an opportunity for the expansion of its hegemony by sowing discord among the Bahraini people," he added.
Hashemi called for the trial of al-Khalifa officials for the crimes they have committed against the innocent Bahraini nation.
The Bahraini regime has been suppressing peaceful demonstrations by anti-government protesters across Bahrain since mid-February 2011.
Violence against the defenseless people escalated after a Saudi-led conglomerate of police, security and military forces from the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) member states – Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar – were dispatched to the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom on March 2011, to crack down on peaceful protestors for the Manama regime.
So far, hundreds of protesters have been killed, hundreds have gone missing and thousands of others have been injured by the Bahraini and Saudi soldiers. Thousands of people, including opposition party and religious leaders as well as renowned human rights activists, have been arrested while hundreds more have been sent to exile. All international human rights bodies have condemned the Al-Khalifa regime for exercising extreme violence against peaceful protests.
