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UK Prime Minister David Cameron contemptuously avoided expressing condemnation, saying:
The event is "a matter for Formula One. Bahrain is not Syria. There is a process of reform underway."
<blockquote>Ed Milliiband was one of 17 MPs signing a Commons motion, calling the race "an endorsement of (Al Khalifa) policies of suppression of dissent. I certainly think it is the case that, given the violence we have seen in Bahrain and given the human rights abuses, I don't believe the Grand Prix should go ahead."
Alkhawaja's daughter told the Independent:
If drivers don't reconsider and leave, "their children will ask them why they went to race in a country when its rulers were arresting and torturing so many people."</blockquote>
Imagine starting their engines mindless about protesters assaulted, brutalized, and perhaps shot nearby. It gives outrage, disgrace, and contempt for what's right new meaning.
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