IV Online magazine - Archive

Thus, the difficult debate on the introduction of a “no fly zone” in Libya has led to a UN resolution that constitutes a green light for an international military intervention in Libya. Without terrestrial military “occupation”, it is specified. At the same time, the Saudi army and the emirate’s police are disembarking in Bahrain to take part in the crushing of a democratic and peaceful revolution: a military attack was made Wednesday, March 16, 2011 to dismantle the camp in Pearl Square, re-named Tahrir Square in explicit reference to the Egyptian revolution. Helicopters shot at the people: there have deaths, dozens of wounded who cannot reach Manama hospital under siege by the Saudi army and armoured tanks. The regime has decreed martial law and arrested figures from the democratic opposition , both Shiite and Sunni. In Bahrain a protest movement for civile rights has been met by repression under foreign military occupation… and under the surveillance of U.S. 5th fleet which already has a naval base there.