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"They are leaving no oppressive stone unturned. They enter homes of people already detained and ransack (them). They are keeping people in detention with limited (or no) access to their lawyers and families."
On April 12, Krauss headlined, "Hospital Is Drawn Into Bahrain Strife," saying:
Masked soldiers "guard the front gate of Salmaniya Medical Complex. Inside clinics are virtually empty of patients, many of whom, doctors say, have been hauled away for detention after participating in protests."
Doctors, nurses, and other medical staff have also been arrested, officials calling Salmaniya (Bahrain's largest public hospital) and local clinics hotbeds of "radical Shiite conspirators trying to destabilize the country."
Doctors, however, say Salmaniya and other medical facilities have been targeted by state terror. As a result, sick and injured Bahrainis have nowhere to go for treatment.
The Obama administration steadfastly supports the Al-Khalifa regime and other regional despots, saying practically nothing about their abuses, no matter how extreme, while pretending to support democratic change in Libya.
On April 11, a Washington Post editorial expressed concern headlining, "The US silence on Bahrain's crackdown," saying:
While condemning human rights abuses in Libya and bloody crackdowns in Syria, "the president and his administration remain mostly silent about another ugly campaign of repression underway in the Arab world, in the Persian Gulf emirate of Bahrain."
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