Affrontements à المنامة Manama – 23 décembre 2011

Bahrain police ‘attack Shia opposition headquarters’

bbc.co.uk

23 December 2011

Bahrain security forces have attacked the headquarters of the country’s Shia opposition, the group says.

Tear gas and rubber bullets were fired at protesters at its offices west of Manama, Al-Wefaq said.

More than 40 people died in a crackdown against protesters in Bahrain in the spring. An independent commission concluded « excessive force » was used.

The violence has fuelled anger against the Sunni ruling family and political elite in majority Shia Bahrain.

Al-Wefaq said that several people, including children, had been wounded in Friday’s crackdown, which reports said happened after opposition supporters attempted to defy a government ban on demonstrations.

« We are a people that won’t be broken. All this repression and brutality is the source of our strength and determination to continue the struggle and defend our national rights, » Al-Wefaq’s vice-president, Sheikh Hassan Al Daihi, said in a statement. Read more…