More rights for Shiites
BAHRAIN is one of the GCC countries which gained independence in the 1970s. Since then, it has become an international financial center and it served as an active military base earlier than the others. In its recent ‘spring’, tension escalated in the country due to growing demands for reform and democracy. The main goal was to grant more rights to the Shiites of Bahrain, particularly after some groups complained about the alleged spread of discrimination and marginalization.
The King and the young Crown Prince of the Kingdom immediately took concrete steps to avoid sectarian violence, promote democracy, grant equal rights to the people, and initiate dialogue with the public without the intervention of any foreign power. The current situation in the Gulf, in which the common ruling system is tribal monarchy, cannot be compared with the other ‘springs’ in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia or Yemen, simply because these countries are republics that had been transformed into personal and family business empires whose main goal is to give severe poverty, corruption, injustice and unemployment to the people!
Email: Labeed.abdal@gmail.com
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By: Labeed Abdal
http://www.arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/172494/reftab/73/t/Bahrain-and-the-new-Arab-stability/Default.aspx
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