Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Bahraini forces killed a teenager

Security forces in Bahrain have reportedly killed a male teenager amid continuing crackdown on the popular revolution around the country.
Fifteen-year-old Sayed Ahmed died from a headshot in the village of Saar on Wednesday, Bahrain's Al Wefaq political party announced on its page on the social networking website Facebook.
The party said the victim was out playing and tried to run when he saw the forces.
The revolution started to sweep the Shia-majority Persian Gulf island on February 14, calling for the ouster of the 230-year-old Sunni-led monarchy as well as constitutional reforms.The government, which has launched indiscriminate armed attacks on peaceful protesters, recently enlisted the support of police and military units from Saudi Arabia and the United Arabia Emirates.
Not counting the latest casualty, at least 24 people have been killed and about 1,000 others injured during the government-sanctioned violence.
Also on Wednesday, the Human Rights Watch accused Bahraini forces of using violence against people that had already received injuries during earlier attacks.
The rights body said it had documented several cases in which the forces had "severely harassed or beaten" patients under medical care in the country's Salmaniya hospital in Manama.

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