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Bahraini Protesters

(DP-News – Agencies )
Manama, Bahrain- As the worldwide media is focusing on Syria, the other crackdown`s victims of Bahraini demonstrators, who are demanding a democratic government, have been completely sidelined.

The children and families of some twenty Bahraini medical staff, who have been arrested for treating injured demonstrators at protests, said their relatives have gone on hunger strike as a last resort to raise awareness of their plight. They have been in prison for nearly half a year, as their trials continue in a military court, although the Bahraini constitution prohibits military tribunals from trying civilians.


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“The trial of Bahraini medics in a military tribunal is against the country’s constitution. Article 105 of the constitution says civilians should only be tried in civilian courts,” Al Jazeera quoted Khalil al-Mazrooq, a former chairman of the main opposition group al-Wefaq, as saying.


Some of the doctors and nurses are by now in critical conditions, which are likely to worsen under the impact of the hunger strike.

“One doctor has a cerebral aneurism, another has severe injuries from torture. Another man is suffering badly from diabetes. Now that they are all on hunger strike, their condition will only get worse,” said a relative.

The Bahraini government has accused the detainees of taking hostages at Manama’s Salmaniya hospital, bringing guns into the building, and using ambulances to run weapons to protesters.

Nonetheless protest demonstrations in Bahrain, calling for the monarch to step down, continue and continue to claim victims. Tens of thousands of protesters attended on Saturday a funeral procession for a 14-year old boy, Ali Jawa, who had been killed by Bahraini security forces with a tear-gas canister fired straight into his face. Anti-riot police targeted the funeral with live fire.

The Bahraini Centre for Human Rights reports that hundreds of political activists are still being detained in prisons and many of the demonstrators have simply disappeared since their arrest.

In the face of these facts, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa's promise on 28 August to reinstate some of the sacked public employees in their posts was received as an insult to the hundreds who lost their work and livelihoods or were banned from universities for having participated in the protests