Press TV talks with Rodney Shakespeare, Chairman of the Committee against torture in Bahrain in London who cites the fact that dumdum bullets are internationally banned. Following is a transcription of his interview.
Press TV: You have heard about some of the violations taking place by Bahraini and Saudi forces in Bahrain and I believe you have something to tell us about female doctors in terms of what they experienced and any other relevant details regarding the abuse that has taken place where they're concerned?
Rodney Shakespeare: When the female nurses and doctors were arrested they were taken into prison, whipped with thick rubber hoses, electrocuted with cattle prods and then had their faces smashed against the wall. And that's prior to forcing them to make written confessions.
It's in the confessions that there is something very significant. They were forced to sign papers saying that when patients were brought into hospital they put their hands inside the wound and pulled apart the wound (gesturing it was done with their hands) until it was two to five times a greater wound than it would otherwise have been.
There's no doubt that the wounds on these patients were terrible wounds. Why on earth should the Khalifa killers force the nurses to say that they created the wounds? Well, there is only one explanation for that, and it is the use of dumdum bullets either by the killer Khalifa forces or the Saudi perverts who get their kicks out of beating up little girls.
A normal bullet will, generally speaking, go straight through and make a hole; it wounds you, it puts you out of battle and puts you down. But if you get a file or a knife and nick the end of the bullet it will splay outward. As a result when it goes into the person the hole is three to five times wider than it would otherwise have been and the wound is terrible.
Needless to say this practice is banned by international law. There could be only one other explanation, which is that the killer Khalifas and the Saudi perverts have been using explosive bullets..
So there you have it -- ordinary weapons supplied of course by my own country (Britain) and I'm disgusted with them; the fact that they're providing them with these weapons; that my prime minister dares to shake hands with a smirking crown prince who oversees all the torture and what is now the case is overseeing the use of dumdum bullets.
This is the most disgraceful thing to come out of the present disturbances and my country is hand in glove with the use of dumdum bullets and so is the American government.
Press TV: A few months have gone by now. I'd like to get your reaction about UK involvement when we consider three factors: weapons from the UK; public order training; and the quashing of peaceful protests. At the same time given the fact that a few months have passed, we have the US with their fifth fleet standing not doing anything while these abuses are occurring. What does that show in terms of both the UK and US and the way they have displayed themselves during the months that have gone by?
Rodney Shakespeare: Well, beginning with a point on training -- the training has been specifically given to the Saudi National Guard. The Saudi National Guard are not the regular army, which is charged with defending Saudi Arabia, they are charged purely with defending what is the most corrupt regime in the world -- it is politically bankrupt; it is morally bankrupt and culturally bankrupt -- it's done nothing except invent the Saudi sword dance in which they smirk and giggle and show that they like hacking off peoples' heads.
The point is that the British government does everything to support this regime and that is the truth of the matter. Why is the British government doing this? It's for exactly the same reasons as the Americans are doing it -- it is a deal between the governments of Britain, the US, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain and the deal is that the US and the UK will support the Bahrainis and the Jordanians and the Saudis against their own populations as long as they support Israel. Israel is what is behind this.
Israel completely controls American foreign policy so much so that the prime minister of Israel now gives the 'V' sign to President Obama when he made it quite clear that it doesn't matter what President Obama says, Israel is never going to withdraw back to the 1967 borders and there's never going to be an independent Palestinian state. That tells you what this is all about.
Part of this is that the fifth fleet is there to protect Saudi Arabia, to protect Bahrain, to protect the UAE and to protect Jordan. So it's a corrupt group ultimately about protecting and upholding Israel. And Israel as we all know is an out of control paranoid attack dog, which has 200 atomic bombs or more and when it shoots people, particularly if they're unarmed, it turns around and says it was the unarmed person that started it.
The whole thing is thoroughly corrupt, it's out of control and my country and prime minister is part of this and the hypocrisy is on an incredible scale. They talk about democracy elsewhere of course they don't mean it.
They're trying to ensure that there is no true democracy in Egypt. They're doing everything they can to stop democracy in Yemen. They're half succeeding in doing it in Tunisia. There is no democracy coming from the UK or US, it is only to support a corrupt Zionist Israel, a tyrannical medieval totalitarian Saudi Arabia and a bunch of Khalifa killers who are using dumdum bullets and they can't deny it.
Press TV: The UK and the US -- How will this backfire in terms of what has and is occurring in Bahrain?
Rodney Shakespeare: Bahrain is the most democratic uprising the world has ever known as a percentage of the population.
The USA and UK are exposed as being hand in glove -- the USA ordered the crackdown and they ordered it because they are in the hands of Zionism. And this is now getting out and I prophesize that the information about the dumdum bullets will get out as well.
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