A Turkish Demo for Bahrain Amidst UN Silence Over Violent Situation

In an interview with Press TV, London-based documentary filmmaker David Lawley said "That [the crackdown on protesters] is completely against the Geneva Convention[s] in any warfare or any protest situation; so to be breaking the Geneva Convention[s]... and to (be) basically committing genocide; I think it's ... an amazing situation that the UN isn't looking further into these things".

Lawley further denounced the brutal manner in which the Saudi-backed Bahraini regime forces crack down on peaceful anti-government protesters.
"Each little village [in Bahrain] is surrounded by police cars and occasionally, two tanks and at least five or six police cars around each little village. So, in the evenings when there are peaceful protests, all the people in the village go up on the roofs and chant 'God is great' and then the police storm into the villages with these police cars and then the tanks roll through and they disperse the crowd with tear gas and shooting birdshot from guns," he said.

"The medical teams out there ... are treating children as young as twelve for beatings, and we have seen numerous cases of birdshot in peoples' arms and eyes. Some people have lost their sight," he further noted.
Lawley described the UN's reactions regarding the Bahraini regime violent practices as an instance of "double standards" further saying, "Why are they [the UN authorities] not touching Bahrain when genocide is actually taking place on the streets?"

Amnesty International and the Human Rights Watch have also condemned the Bahraini and Saudi regimes for their heavy-handed bloody tactics practiced against the Bahraini people.

Turkey Protest for Bahrain

On this level, Turkish protesters held a rally in the Turkish capital of Istanbul, to denounce the Saudi-backed military onslaught on Bahraini civilians.
The angry demonstrators marched to the Saudi embassy and chanted anti-Riyadh slogans.
"We condemn the killings in Bahrain and we want the king [Al Khalifa] to step down. We want democracy for the region not monarchy," a demonstrator stated.

The demonstrators also warned that if the international community remained silent in front of these events, then the humanitarian situation in Bahrain would only be worsened.
Kible magazine Editor-in-Chief Kader Akaris affirmed, "Indifference will only embolden the tyrants. People who don't speak out against the tyrants are complicating their crimes. The media blackout on Bahrain is intentional".

The European Union and the United States have kept silent over the oppressing attempts of the Bahraini regime and the Saudi intervention against the peaceful pro-democracy movements in Bahrain.

After Tunisia's and Egypt's successful revolution, Bahrain joined in the Middle Eastern-South
African Uprising to demand reform to their country, and has been holding peaceful anti-government demonstrations across Bahrain since mid-February.

According to local sources, many protesters have been killed during the Bahraini government crackdown which was aided by the Saudi foreign troops that contributed in escalating violence in the country.
Saudi and Bahrain troops have also destroyed and demolished dozens of mosques and religious sites, alongside with burning many versions of the Holy Quran.