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Bahrain security forces use tanks in crackdown on protesters in Manama

by Stephen Hui on March 16th, 2011 at 6:44 AM
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      Bahrain's security forces have used tanks to drive anti-government protesters out of Pearl Square in the capital, Manama.

      BBC News reported that the government has imposed a curfew and banned all protests.

      It said reports indicate that at least three protesters were killed after police fired on the mostly Shia demonstrators.

      Three police officers were also killed, according to officials.

      The BBC says Bahrain's Sunni rulers have called in Saudi troops as they try to suppress the uprising.

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      John Shfer

      Mar 16, 2011 at 2:55pm

      As well, the Bahraini democratic uprising is being crushed with Light Armoured Vehicles (LAVs), made in Canada by GM. 1200 or so were made by CAW union labour in London Ontario during the 1990s and early 2000s, and sold to the Saudi National Guard. See:
      http://www.ceasefire.ca/?p=7585 These and the state of the art prison being built for Muammar Ghadafi by SNC Lavalin, whose chair Gwyn Morgan is Christy Clark's 'transition advisor; only goes to show that when it comes to repression and Canadians, it really is a small world.