{"id":18874,"date":"2013-11-01T14:22:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T20:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18874"},"modified":"2013-11-01T14:23:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T20:23:41","slug":"bahrain-revolution-museum-tells-truth-about-brutality-regime-raided-shut-down-by-moi-thugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18874","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain &#8216;Revolution Museum&#8217; tells truth about Brutality Regime, Raided, Shut-down by MOI Thugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HeGE2u224MI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bahrain Crackdown Extends to Exhibit on Crackdown<\/strong><br \/>\nBy ROBERT MACKEY &#8211; 31 October, 2013 &#8211; NYT<\/p>\n<p>One day after the police in Bahrain raided the offices of an opposition party to confiscate materials being used in an exhibition on the security crackdown following the 2011 uprising, the authorities released a video statement in which a spokesman contended that the display of painting, spent tear-gas canisters and the belongings of dead protesters was being used to illegally \u201creinforce hatred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The opposition activist Ala\u2019a Shehabi heaped scorn on the police spokesman\u2019s attempt to justify the crackdown on remembering the crackdown, calling it a \u201ctragicomedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two spokesmen for the party, al-Wefaq, denounced the raid on its \u201cRevolution Museum\u201d exhibit at a news conference on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>    S.Hadi \u201cyesterday we had added to the #RevolutionMuseum a scene simulating home raids, then it was raided!\u201d<br \/>\n    #Bahrain http:\/\/t.co\/AbcbXnhhjev  \u2014 AlwefaqEN (@AlWefaqEN) 31 Oct 13<\/p>\n<p>    Raid of alWefaq\u2019s building makes us more convinced that #Bahrain needs transition to democracy, why is force used against peaceful activism? \u2014 AlwefaqEN (@AlWefaqEN) 31 Oct 13<\/p>\n<p>Before the exhibition was shut down, supporters of the uprising against the kingdom\u2019s monarchy documented it on YouTube and in images posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>    #Bahrain \u2019s #RevolutionMuseum<br \/>\n    A painting of the Pearl monument symbol of the revolution in the historic Pearl 2011 http:\/\/t.co\/uq01YZ1BM9<br \/>\n    \u2014 Hasan (@3lsari) 29 Oct 13<\/p>\n<p>    #Bahrain #RevolutionMuseum<br \/>\n    personal belongings of ali saqer who was tortured to death inside detention on 9-4-2011 http:\/\/t.co\/qql2YLUF1K<br \/>\n    \u2014 Hasan (@3lsari) 29 Oct 13<\/p>\n<p>    #Bahrain \u2019s #RevolutionMuseum<br \/>\n    the camera of the photographer the martyr ja\u2019affer al-karrany http:\/\/t.co\/FfnknmKduR<br \/>\n    \u2014 Hasan (@3lsari) 29 Oct 13<\/p>\n<p>    #RevolutionMuseum Show facts including the demolition of mosques! Is this who scare you to surround #AlWEFAQ http:\/\/t.co\/FYkBKfGWTz   \u2014 WeRallNabeelRajab (@Sajaya86) 30 Oct 13<\/p>\n<p>    #Bahrain #RevolutionMuseum: 7 panoramas documenting the violations of the regime #idlenomore<br \/>\n    http:\/\/t.co\/rKARVX4avk http:\/\/t.co\/0e2UGU4sKM \u2014 el-hashimi (@elhashimi1) 31 Oct 13<\/p>\n<p>Organizers of the exhibition told The Associated Press that the panoramas and collections of personal items were inspired in part by the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>As my colleague Kareem Fahim reported, the crackdown on dissent seemed to escalate again last month with the arrest of Khalil al-Marzooq, a former member of Parliament and a leader of Wefaq, mainstream opposition group which had been engaged in dialogue with the government.<\/p>\n<p>The struggle by activists to preserve memories of the uprisings across the Arab world in 2011 has been an ongoing theme in the region for the past two years. 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