Lara Lee, activist and filmmaker posted a great article on HuffPost: ”Bahrain and the true face of US Foreign Policy. Here are excerpts. Visit HuffPost to see photos and read more.
“Bahrain is the face of a US foreign policy not guided by any benign democratic principles, but by opportunism — one beholden to the unctuous Gulf monarchies, that belies president Obama’s pleasant speechifying, and makes him very much a partner-in-crime against the ordinary people of Bahrain.
The mainstream western media has willfully ignored the continued abuses in Bahrain, and al Jazeera, which had provided the most robust coverage of unrest in Egypt, Tunisia, and elsewhere, has also been conspicuously silent on the repression in Bahrain. Small wonder, when you consider that al Jazeera is owned by the royal family of Qatar, another Gulf monarchy made uneasy by change in the region.” SOURCE
HELP THE PEOPLE OF BAHRAIN:
visit the websites below, sign the petitions, and subscribe to their mailing lists to stay aware of a truly democratic revolution happening despite the best efforts of the oil monarchies and their allegedly pro-democratic American clients.
Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights
Bahrain Center for Human Rights
Amnesty International
Campaign for Peace and Democracy
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DID YOU KNOW THAT AL JAZEERA IS OWNED BY THE ROYAL FAMILY OF QATAR?
Qatar is a destination for men and women from South Asia and Southeast Asia who migrate willingly, but are subsequently trafficked into involuntary servitude as domestic workers and labourers, and, to a lesser extent, commercial sexual exploitation. The most common offence was forcing workers to accept worse contract terms than those under which they were recruited. Other offences include bonded labour, withholding of pay, restrictions on movement, arbitrary detention, and physical, mental, and sexual abuse.
According to the Trafficking in Persons Report by the US state Department, men and women who are lured into Qatar by promises of high wages are often forced into underpaid labour. The report states that Qatari laws against forced labour are rarely enforced and that labour laws often result in the detention of victims in deportation centres, pending the completion of legal proceedings. The report places Qatar at tier 3, as one of the countries that neither satisfies the minimum standards nor demonstrates significant efforts to come into compliance.
The government maintains that it is setting the benchmark when it comes to human rights and treatment of labourers. SOURCE WIKI.
