{"id":17840,"date":"2013-08-29T07:57:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T13:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17840"},"modified":"2013-08-29T07:57:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T13:57:47","slug":"after-two-months-of-brutal-abuse-bahrain-regime-reopens-dialogue-with-village-gassings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17840","title":{"rendered":"After two Months of Brutal Abuse, Bahrain Regime &#8216;Reopens Dialogue&#8217; with Village Gassings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bhexcessivegas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bhexcessivegas-e1377784434886.jpg\" alt=\"bhexcessivegas\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17841\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bahrain dialogue restarts after two-month break<\/strong><br \/>\n28 August, 2013 &#8211; France 24 &#8211; AFP<\/p>\n<p>AFP &#8211; Bahrain&#8217;s national dialogue launched in February and aimed at ending the Gulf monarchy&#8217;s political deadlock since a 2011 Shiite-led revolt resumed on Wednesday after a two-month summer break.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition and government representatives took part in the Manama talks, participants said.<\/p>\n<p>Led by the influential Shiite group Al-Wefaq, the opposition is taking part in the dialogue while keeping up street protests to call for reform in the Shiite-majority, Sunni-rule state.<\/p>\n<p>Bahraini authorities in 2011 crushed mass pro-democracy demonstrations in the capital with the help of Saudi-led troops but sporadic protests have continued in the Shiite villages.<\/p>\n<p>At least 80 people have been killed in Bahrain since Arab Spring-inspired pro-democracy protests erupted in February 2011, according to the International Federation for Human Rights. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20130828-bahrain-dialogue-restarts-after-two-month-break\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D17840&amp;text=After+two+Months+of+Brutal+Abuse%2C+Bahrain+Regime+%27Reopens+Dialogue%27+with+Village+Gassings&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain dialogue restarts after two-month break 28 August, 2013 &#8211; France 24 &#8211; AFP AFP &#8211; Bahrain&#8217;s national dialogue launched in February and aimed at ending the Gulf monarchy&#8217;s political deadlock since a 2011 Shiite-led revolt resumed on Wednesday after a two-month summer break. Opposition and government representatives took part in the Manama talks, participants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17840#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2139],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17843,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17840\/revisions\/17843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}