(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - We interviewed Rodney Shakespeare, Chairman of the Committee against Torture in Bahrain, who says similar investigations in the past has produced no results.
What follows is the text of the interview:
Q: Bahrain says it will investigate this latest killing. Have similar investigations produced any results before?
Shakespeare: This is total hypocrisy and an attempt to shift blame. Backed by the United States of America's government, the killer, Al Khalifa, have called in a bunch of ghoulish Saudi thugs, who together with the Bahraini brutes, have tortured [the protesters], including the torturing of nurses and doctors for treating the wounded, a torturing for which the Al Khalifa will never be forgiven. And they have killed, for which the Al Khalifa will one day be brought before the court of criminal justice.
They have revealed their perverse tendencies in the way they like beating up little girls, they declared fellow Muslims to be heretics and destroyed mosques and they have used Dum-Dum bullets which make football-size holes in human beings and now some individual thug is being accused of unlawful behavior as the killer Al Khalifa and the Saudi perverts are trying to start a process of absolving themselves from their own criminal responsibility for atrocity. Well, I tell you now, they will not succeed.
Q: We know that the Bahraini rights groups have accused the Al Khalifa regime of systematically torturing people who are opposed to its rule. What have the West and the UN done to stop the killings in Bahrain?
Shakespeare: The West and the UN have done absolutely nothing, they claim that they have spoken to the Bahraini government. Take the US government, it has five thousand troops, roughly 200 yards down the road, who only need to put their hats on, turn around and stop all this brutality and these atrocities.
The hypocrisy of the UK, the US and the UN is immense and what is more, the US and the UK are not serving their own long-term interests by the way they are holding their support for the perverts and the totalitarian thugs.
It is time that they stand up and say that we are democrats and we will always allow genuine peaceful behavior, because the extraordinary thing about the Bahraini population is that more than any other population, they have been completely peaceful in the way they demand. The western behavior [in this regard] has been hypocritical and absolutely shocking.
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