(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - “The Americans have actually instructed; instigated the repression in Bahrain. They are straight behind it, and they are straight behind it, because their foreign policy is controlled by Zionist Israel,” said Rodney Shakespeare, Chairman of the Committee against Torture in Bahrain, in an interview.
“The United States is effectively capable of overthrowing all of those [oppressive] regimes, but it is not going to do so, because at the heart of what is now a fascism it is the United States of America aided by its supine, cowardly allies which include the United Kingdom,” he added.
“These people [West and allies] use every trick they can to suppress what is obviously a straightforward democratic revolution, which is now starting there,” noted the analyst.
Shakespeare went on to say “political awareness” is now needed in regard to the current Bahraini government's crackdown that has met massive condemnations.
“The immediate need is for a political awareness of the bigger issues -- rich-poor division, and a vicious suppression. It is a rising fascism.”
The political analyst also added that the United Nations Security Council could give “jurisdiction” to the International Criminal Court to bring to justice those responsible for the brutality against the “democratic” peaceful protesters.
“We need to say to all of these people that no matter how long it takes, at some point we will get the jurisdiction. We have got the evidence. We have got the witnesses,” he pointed out.
“But when we get the jurisdiction, we will go for them, and the people who are holding up this jurisdiction are the United States of America and those hypocrites in Europe. They are hypocrites and they are cowards. But everybody has got to act politically to get the pressure on these criminals.”
Since the beginning of the uprising in Bahrain in mid-February, dozens of anti-government protesters have been killed and many others gone missing.
Six opposition leaders have also been arrested and the Manama government has so far refused to provide any information on their fate.
Bahrain opposition says the regime has so far arrested over 450 opposition activists, including 14 women.
The brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters has also claimed the lives of at least 26 and left more than 1,000 others wounded.
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