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The marches were purely peaceful where demonstrators do not use other than
their unprotected chests and their loud throats. However, the brutal forces acted
against them with sound bombs, tear gas, and shotgun bullets, which is a weapon
prohibited for use internationally. This resulted in the death of the first martyr in
the evening of February 14th, Ali Abd Al-Hadi Mushaima, 21 years old Bahraini
man from Aldaih village. The next morning, when the big crowds moved toward
the funeral of the first martyr, they were shocked that were attacked again by
the same weapons. Consequently, the attack led to the fall of another martyr,
Fadhel Almatrook from Almahooz.
The numbers of protesters were increasing as many men, women and, even,
children were determined to stay in the square of the Pearl roundabout and not
return to their homes. They asked the king and the government to carry out a
dialogue and to listen to them, but no one responded.
From here, the disaster begun when the government betrayed the people. At
3:00 in the morning, while many of the protestors were asleep, the police and the
riot-control forces surrounded them from all sides, and began heavily firing tear
gas, sound bombs and shooting bullets. The sudden attack led to killing four,
wounding more than 400, and causing others to be missing.
Kingdom of Bahrain is a small island with friendly, peaceful and civilized people
who long for freedom. They have witnessed several uprisings over the years
against the Al khalifa rulership since 1782 AD. However, in 2002, the situation
began to tranquilize after the accession of King Hamad Bin Salman Al Khalifa. The
people uprisings yielded its results by their attainment of the charter on Monday
the 14th of February 2002. 98.4% of voters voted in favour of the charter.