{"id":15939,"date":"2013-01-28T11:02:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T18:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15939"},"modified":"2013-01-28T11:01:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T18:01:38","slug":"15939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15939","title":{"rendered":"Collective Manslaughter exacts toll on Children and Elderly in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bahrain: An 8 year-old-boy and an 87 year-old man; Two Victims in One Month of the Tear Gas Collective Punishment<\/strong>
\n27 January, 2013 – Bahrain Center for Human Rights<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/center?\nPhoto: Left: Habeeb Ebrahim, Right : Qassim Habib\n\nThe Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) expresses its grave concern over the death of two Bahraini citizens due to the collective punishment tear gas assaults that the Bahraini authorities have indiscriminately applied to crowded villages.\n\nAccording to his family, Habeeb Ebrahim (87 years old), was subjected to extensive amount of teargas on the 27th of September 2012, which caused him to faint and disrupted his breathing. He then was taken to Al-Kuwait local health center and was managed there for the acute deterioration from teargas inhalation and was discharged to his home. On the 14th of October 2012, he was admitted to Salmaniya Medical Hospital after suffering another teargas suffocation after an excessive use of teargas inside a residential area, which included his home. For the third time, Habeeb was hospitalized on the 30th of November 2012 at Salmaniya Hospital after the Bahraini authorities attacked a protest in his village and a high volume of teargas was thrown near his house. His health collapsed and deteriorated until he passed away on the 12th of January 2013.\n\nHabeeb Ebrahim was suffering from an underlying respiratory disease, which made him vulnerable to suffocation and collapse after any attack of teargas used excessively and deliberately by the riot police in Bahrain. A price several other citizens had to pay because of the international impunity given to the Bahrain government and continuous arm-sales by Western countries and allies. \n\nQassim Habib, 8 years old, is the second victim to die from complications resulting from teargas inhalation in less than two weeks; he died on the 26th January 2013. Said Yousif Al-Muhafdha, BCHR\u2019s Acting Vice President and Head of Monitoring met with the family of the victim. The family stated that their village, Karbabad, was attacked extensively with teargas on the 17th of January 2013 and as Qassim suffers from asthma, it is believed by the family that this attack made him vulnerable to teargas and lead to his death. This YouTube video <\/strong><\/a>reportedly documents the amount of teargas which was thrown on the house of the victim. …more<\/a><\/p>\n
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