(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The young demonstrator, Ahmed Ismail al-Samadi, was reportedly shot and killed by regime forces in the village of Salmabad outside the capital, Manama, during a peaceful anti-government protest on Friday. Regime forces on Friday continued their crackdown on the peaceful demonstrations in the Arab country, attacking protesters around the capital Manama and injuring several people in different areas, according to activists. Bahraini forces, backed by Saudi troops, have killed scores of people and arrested many more for participating in the anti-regime protests that erupted in mid-February 2011. We have conducted an interview with Kamel Wazni, political commentator, to share his opinion on this issue. The following is a transcript of the interview: Q: Another death of a peaceful demonstrator, just how far the Saudi-backed Al Khalifa is willing to go to quell the demonstrations in Bahrain? Wazni: Well obviously the tactic that is used by the Bahraini government and the Saudis support military of the royal family in Bahrain is taking all the measurement of crackdown and oppression against the people of Bahrain. There is no end because I think there is a fear among the Persian Gulf countries that if Bahraini revolution succeeded, this revolution will manifest itself in other [Persian] Gulf countries and especially in Saudi Arabia. There is fear that any victory in Bahrain that will spark the already demonstrations in Qatif in Saudi Arabia and other parts of the Persian Gulf, so the decision by the Persian Gulf countries to crackdown as much as they can and prevent any success for the demonstration disregarding the civil rights of these demonstrations, disregarding the international law and disregarding the democratic process that is calling by the Bahraini people to have a decent legitimate equal right in a country where discrimination is a prevailing act of the government of Bahrain. So how far they are going? They are going too far announcing they will stop any time soon because they think if this revolution become victorious, this is the beginning of the end of the political establishment of a lot of monarchies in the region and the order from the leadership of the Persian Gulf crackdown and put an end and without any regard for the lives of the Bahraini people. Q: Well we have got used to the silence of the US and its allies but how come the Arab League annual summit in Iraq altogether failed to address the issue of Bahrain? Wazni: Well when we talk about the Arab League we have to be very careful about whom we are talking about because the Arab League now is headed by Qatar and Saudi Arabia and Egypt which was supposed to be the major power in the Arab world is absent from that leadership. Syria is actually been not part of the Arab world any longer after they decided to freeze its membership. So when we are talking about, we are talking about the Persian Gulf and the Persian Gulf already know what [is] their position on Bahrain and the situation of the region. You can go little further. I think that even the economic assistant that the Persian Gulf actually promised some Arab countries on the condition that they do not spread their democratic movement into the Persian Gulf and that is why we heard a lot of spreading, a lot of talk about giving money and assistant to Arab countries specially to Egypt and Tunisia and other parts of the Arab world but on the one condition that they should not spread their revolution into the Persian Gulf. And I think the fear, it is on Bahrain and Bahrain where you have the majority of the people really been under duress by the government and been repressed by their own government and this is a litmus test for the Persian Gulf. If this revolution be successful it is going to be the guiding light for the region because the monarchy has not been tested in the Persian Gulf for very long time and I think this is the first time when you have real threat for the Saudis and [Persian] Gulf countries. They feel this is a war of existence. If they allow the Bahraini to succeed maybe this is the beginning of the end of the monarchy and we know there is a lot of dissident in the Arab world specially there is no democratic system in Qatar or Saudi Arabia or other Arab countries and they know that if they allow this demonstration to succeed in one level, it will succeed in their own cities and towns and they know they have a lot of things to hide and they are afraid of the outcome.
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