This is the second part of my analysis of the BICI Report. It includes the remaining events of February and March, the concluding observations and the Events at Salmaniya Medical Complex...
I'm listing the most important points, as I see the Report, and commenting on them where necessary...
[bici] 641: 14 February protests were not orchestrated by institutionalized political opposition groups. This proves that the movement is internal and that no external threats or interventions were present.
[bici] 641: 14 February protests crossed religious, sectarian and ethnic lines. This proves that the movement was NOT sectarian.
[bici] 642: When demands for reforms are rebuffed, the demands become for regime change. That’s why and how the call for the fall of the regime started.
[bici] 650: Protestors remained peaceful. No comments
[bici] 650: Even though protestors had not obtained authorizations to hold protests, their peaceful demonstrations were tolerated by the GoB. WRONG. Salman Bin Hamad gave the permission on BTV and everybody saw it.
[bici] 651: Sectarian tensions increased when, on 7 March, threats were circulated in internet social media networks against a Sunni woman who injured a demonstrator at the BFH as she left the area after her car was stopped by demonstrators and she was harassed. WRONG. The video is clear. Please see the video. She wasn't attacked: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lELUM39SMNw
[bici] 652: Three main opposition groups called for the establishment of a democratic republic in Bahrain. That's it. DEMOCRATIC. Not Islamic.
[bici] 651 – 653: The paragraphs focused on the fear that Sunnis accumulated from the events. It's worth noting that all injuries and deaths were among the Shia and yet the report talks about Sunnis fear!!
[bici] 652: The Commission has not been able to verify these claims (that clashed at UOB were orchestrated by the GoB). See the videos of the attack by thugs, who were protected and escorted by riot police. There are tens of other videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z0P13CEJdk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHjlbBoIYN4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUWV6Cu2XnU
[bici] 653: The march on Riffaa led many in the GoB and among the Sunni community to conclude that because of the radical demands of the protestors the room for compromise had been diminished. What has the Sunni community got to do with radical “political” demands?!!!!
[bici] 654: These developments (March events) led the GoB to take forceful measures, beginning with the arrival of GCC-JSF on 14 March. Excuse me!!! What independent state would do this? Do you need foreign troops to restore law and order in your homeland?!!! Do you need tanks and artillery to crack down peaceful protestors??? And even if we assumem hypothetically, that they were violent (i.e. thorowing Molotov cocktails at the extreme), do we really need all those troops???? Give me a brek!
[bici] 657: On some occasions (14 – 17 February), protestors threw Molotov cocktails!!! LIE LIE LIE!!!
[bici] 660: No orders were issued to the police to use lethal force. The unnecessary and disproportionate force used against demonstrators was due to inadequate training, ineffectual and command systems and at insufficient numbers of police. What a lame statement.
[bici] 704: Undersecretary of MoH claimed that protestors were not in control of SMC, the exit and entrance were normal and SMC was under the control of the administrators
[bici] 732: The MoH had previously stated on television that there were only seven patients with minor injuries. If the accused medical personnel was tried and imprisoned for providing false information to the media, then so must the MoH and BTV personnel.
[bici] 746: She did not go to SMC because she had heard television reports that armed opposition protesters had occupied the hospital. It’s the TV personnel who should have been prosecuted for spreading lies and false information!!
[bici] 785: The roundabout was declared a “crime scene” and therefore access (by ambulances) was prevented for the safety of the medical team. Then, why were the ambulances released at around 11:45??
[bici] 797: The BDF did not deny that detention and interrogations occurred within SMC and that some of the patients were transferred to the sixth floor, where they were under the direct control of the BDF.
[bici] 832: The tent erected at the GCC roundabout was officially authorized and supplied by MoH.
[bici] 841: the Commisions finds the allegations of medical personnel supplying protesters with weapons to be unfounded.
[bici] 840: Ambulances did perform their functions of carrying patients from all over Bahrain to SMC and this included expatriate Sunni workers
[bici] 842: The Commission found that certain patients were arrested as a result of injuries sustained at the GCC Roundabout, take to a police station, interrogated and then released or transferred to detention
[bici] 843: The Commission could establish that medical staff members were attacked on their way to and from the GCC roundabout, by security forces
[bici] 846: The SMS entrance and exit were controlled by protestors. If I wasn’t there, I would’ve kept silent. That never happened.
The report succeeds in expressing the fear that the Sunni community claimed and fails to mention that all attacks were on Shia villages.
I'm listing the most important points, as I see the Report, and commenting on them where necessary...
[bici] 641: 14 February protests were not orchestrated by institutionalized political opposition groups. This proves that the movement is internal and that no external threats or interventions were present.
[bici] 641: 14 February protests crossed religious, sectarian and ethnic lines. This proves that the movement was NOT sectarian.
[bici] 642: When demands for reforms are rebuffed, the demands become for regime change. That’s why and how the call for the fall of the regime started.
[bici] 650: Protestors remained peaceful. No comments
[bici] 650: Even though protestors had not obtained authorizations to hold protests, their peaceful demonstrations were tolerated by the GoB. WRONG. Salman Bin Hamad gave the permission on BTV and everybody saw it.
[bici] 651: Sectarian tensions increased when, on 7 March, threats were circulated in internet social media networks against a Sunni woman who injured a demonstrator at the BFH as she left the area after her car was stopped by demonstrators and she was harassed. WRONG. The video is clear. Please see the video. She wasn't attacked: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lELUM39SMNw
[bici] 652: Three main opposition groups called for the establishment of a democratic republic in Bahrain. That's it. DEMOCRATIC. Not Islamic.
[bici] 651 – 653: The paragraphs focused on the fear that Sunnis accumulated from the events. It's worth noting that all injuries and deaths were among the Shia and yet the report talks about Sunnis fear!!
[bici] 652: The Commission has not been able to verify these claims (that clashed at UOB were orchestrated by the GoB). See the videos of the attack by thugs, who were protected and escorted by riot police. There are tens of other videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z0P13CEJdk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHjlbBoIYN4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUWV6Cu2XnU
[bici] 653: The march on Riffaa led many in the GoB and among the Sunni community to conclude that because of the radical demands of the protestors the room for compromise had been diminished. What has the Sunni community got to do with radical “political” demands?!!!!
[bici] 654: These developments (March events) led the GoB to take forceful measures, beginning with the arrival of GCC-JSF on 14 March. Excuse me!!! What independent state would do this? Do you need foreign troops to restore law and order in your homeland?!!! Do you need tanks and artillery to crack down peaceful protestors??? And even if we assumem hypothetically, that they were violent (i.e. thorowing Molotov cocktails at the extreme), do we really need all those troops???? Give me a brek!
[bici] 657: On some occasions (14 – 17 February), protestors threw Molotov cocktails!!! LIE LIE LIE!!!
[bici] 660: No orders were issued to the police to use lethal force. The unnecessary and disproportionate force used against demonstrators was due to inadequate training, ineffectual and command systems and at insufficient numbers of police. What a lame statement.
[bici] 704: Undersecretary of MoH claimed that protestors were not in control of SMC, the exit and entrance were normal and SMC was under the control of the administrators
[bici] 732: The MoH had previously stated on television that there were only seven patients with minor injuries. If the accused medical personnel was tried and imprisoned for providing false information to the media, then so must the MoH and BTV personnel.
[bici] 746: She did not go to SMC because she had heard television reports that armed opposition protesters had occupied the hospital. It’s the TV personnel who should have been prosecuted for spreading lies and false information!!
[bici] 785: The roundabout was declared a “crime scene” and therefore access (by ambulances) was prevented for the safety of the medical team. Then, why were the ambulances released at around 11:45??
[bici] 797: The BDF did not deny that detention and interrogations occurred within SMC and that some of the patients were transferred to the sixth floor, where they were under the direct control of the BDF.
[bici] 832: The tent erected at the GCC roundabout was officially authorized and supplied by MoH.
[bici] 841: the Commisions finds the allegations of medical personnel supplying protesters with weapons to be unfounded.
[bici] 840: Ambulances did perform their functions of carrying patients from all over Bahrain to SMC and this included expatriate Sunni workers
[bici] 842: The Commission found that certain patients were arrested as a result of injuries sustained at the GCC Roundabout, take to a police station, interrogated and then released or transferred to detention
[bici] 843: The Commission could establish that medical staff members were attacked on their way to and from the GCC roundabout, by security forces
[bici] 846: The SMS entrance and exit were controlled by protestors. If I wasn’t there, I would’ve kept silent. That never happened.
The report succeeds in expressing the fear that the Sunni community claimed and fails to mention that all attacks were on Shia villages.
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