“The Al-Khalifas Are Occupiers” — Why Bahrain Is Different From Every Other Gulf State

Bahraini human rights activist Maryam Al-Khawaja explains what makes Bahrain unlike any other GCC country — a Shia majority ruled by a Sunni family widely considered illegitimate occupiers by its population. Its parliament was shut down for refusing to renew a US base lease (need to mention year), and the ruling family has carried out decades of demographic engineering to build a loyalist army against the indigenous population.

“They violently took over Bahrain and have ruled violently since then,” Al-Khawaja told Drop Site — with British backing, and now American.

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