{"id":14644,"date":"2012-12-07T13:28:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T20:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14644"},"modified":"2012-12-07T13:28:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T20:28:48","slug":"protesters-demand-bahrain-pms-ouster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14644","title":{"rendered":"Protesters demand Bahrain PM’s ouster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Protesters demand Bahrain PM’s ouster<\/strong>
\nAFP \u2013 7 December, 2012<\/p>\n

Thousands of demonstrators in a village near the Bahraini capital on Friday demanded the premier’s ouster in the first officially sanctioned protest since a ban at the end of October, witnesses said.<\/p>\n

“Get out, Khalifa!” they chanted, referring to Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa, an uncle of King Hamad, who was held the premiership of the Sunni-ruled regime in the Gulf kingdom since 1974.<\/p>\n

“We don’t want an appointed government, we want a prime minister who serves the people,” Sheikh Ali Salman, head of the main Shiite opposition grouping Al-Wefaq, told the crowd.<\/p>\n

The gathering was the first to be officially allowed since the end of October when the authorities banned all protests to ensure “security is maintained.”<\/p>\n

Bahrain’s opposition is demanding that the country’s premier come from the parliamentary majority, and not be appointed from among the ranks of the ruling Al-Khalifa family.<\/p>\n

Sheikh Salman on Friday asked protesters not to chant slogans calling for the downfall of the Sunni dynasty, a demand of more radical elements of the Shiite opposition.<\/p>\n

He said the right to peaceful protest was guaranteed under international conventions, and demanded the reinstatement of the former Pearl Square, epicentre of month-long 2011 protests but now razed and turned into a junction.<\/p>\n

Bahrain has experienced unrest since early last year when authorities crushed protests led by the Shiite Muslim majority demanding a constitutional monarchy and greater rights.<\/p>\n

Manama came under strong criticism from international human rights organisations over last year’s deadly crackdown on the protests.<\/p>\n

An international panel commissioned by King Hamad to investigate the clampdown found that excessive force and torture had been used against protesters and detainees.<\/p>\n

According to the International Federation for Human Rights, around 80 people have been killed in Bahrain since the violence began on February 14, 2011.
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