Bahrain Independent Commission’s report and the role of Pakistani mercenaries
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KARACHI: Around 8,110 complaints and statements of various human rights abuses were received, and a “systematic practice of physical and psychological mistreatment” was uncovered when the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) began an investigation in July into protests that took place in the Gulf Kingdom earlier this year.
A report released by the BICI on Wednesday provides an extensive overview into the gruesome riots.
The 489-page account also mentions the methods employed by security personnel, including Pakistanis, in Bahrain, and the violence targeted toward expatriate workers. The extensive report notes that a large number of security personnel in Bahrain are from Iraq, Jordan, Pakistan and Yemen.
The role of Pakistani-origin security forces in the violent crackdown against protesters in Bahrain was initially reported by The Express Tribune in March, as it was revealed that the Fauji Foundation’s Overseas Employment Services was recruiting Pakistani ex-servicemen to serve in Bahrain’s security forces. A former military officer is also reportedly involved in headhunting for the same purpose.
The Foreign Office spokesperson said at the time that “these Pakistanis are not being sent by the government of Pakistan. They are employed in Bahrain in their individual capacity”.
Security forces subject protesters to torture
The BICI report investigates the deaths of protesters while they were in Bahraini custody. In the case of Zakariya Rashid Hassan al Asheri, investigators found that he had died as a result of torture. The interior ministry claimed he had “sickle cell anemia”, which Asheri’s family said he did not have.
A fellow detainee told the commission that Asheri was beaten up by security forces.
“The witness stated that all the detainees in the same cell were blindfolded and handcuffed, and forced to lie on their stomachs. On one of the mornings, the deceased began to experience hallucinations or confusion, whereby he began banging on the door shouting his name. The prison guards shouted at him to be quiet and when he did not comply, they entered his cell. The witness heard the deceased being beaten and he heard him scream after each beating. The witness then heard a shuffling noise after which the deceased’s shouts became muffled. The witness then heard a Pakistani say in Urdu, ‘He is dead’.”
Another detainee, who was arrested in April, said that he was routinely beaten and insulted by the prison guards of Pakistani origin. One, who was beaten up and sexually molested in custody, was transferred to a jail run by Pakistani officers where he was “forced to stand for prolonged periods, had limited access to a toilet and was subjected to routine beatings up to three times per day”.
Targeting Pakistanis
The report also highlights that expatriate workers were attacked because many protesters believed they were part of the security forces. On March 3, violence was reported in the vicinity of the Pakistani embassy in Manama. But it was on March 13, termed an “important turning point in the sequence of events in Bahrain”, that there was an increase in attacks against Pakistanis and other expatriate workers.
Quoting investigations by the interior ministry and reports by Pakistan’s foreign ministry, the commission’s report states that one Pakistani man was beaten to death, another later succumbed to his injuries and a third was “violently assaulted” while residences where Pakistanis lived also came under attack.
Published in The Express Tribune, (Saba Imtiaz), November 26th, 2011.
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These so called “peaceful protesters” aren’t so peaceful…I live here and know very well about them, they just want to take over the government by any means just for the greed of money although they are well off even now, they hate the expats specially Pakistanis, and they don’t care if they are in the security forces or not, they have killed many innocent Pakistanis and still your writing the incomplete story, contact the Pakistani embassy in Bahrain, and get your facts right !
Arslan just shut ur lies..!!
shame on you for telling such lies Arsalan Bahraini people are very kind & polite people.can you please tell us what Pakistani mercenaries are doing in Bahrain?
Arsalan, can you please tell me exactly how many Pakistanis were killed? The attached video shows crimes that are unjustifiable by any means. I am sure you and other pro-government loyalists have cameras and know how to use them. How come I dont see any video clip showing those “aren’t so peaceful” protestors attaking people?
Please tell your people to not work and participate on security force on Bahrain the money they paid is mixed with blood of human
You have democracy we want also democracy do we deseve it like you
The Pakistani, Arsalan, know of violence from their homeland where they have mercilessly persecuted the Balochistani for over 50 years. The Pakistani mercenaries are accomplished killers, torturers, it is a part of their heritage now, a heritage of stealing others land and forced disappearances of their peoples. The BICI report confirms who the aggressors are in Bahrain, they are the Al-Khalifa regime and their paid mercenary henchmen, the Pakistani.
Bahraini people oppressed by their government is corrupt, unjust
Freedom to you, the people of Bahrain
down down Hamed
ali
KSA
Governments of the most murderous of its own people
(Government of Bahrain)
Arsalan, the whole world has been reporting on the brutality of the Bahraini regime which is dependent on a bunch of mercenaries brought from outside Bahrain to do the killing and torture whenever ordered to.
Please, don`t be more royal than the royal king himself who appointed a commission to investigate the situation in Bahrain, and the commission just issued a 500 page report explaining the crimes committed against the peaceful protestors in Bahrain by the regime.
Arsalan brother have some peace let me reply
Every one listen cause you just can’t see it right who are burning tires I believe that’s rubber did the environment do anything around why cause pollution no one see that the un doesn’t human right doesn’t the united nation sosent environmental health program dosent
2 Pakistan represents kashmir punjab Sindh kyber pakhtoon Khaw and our love Baluchistan we are not like you
The taste of democracy huh I’m not here to take sides but Seriously think for a minute
Where are the big people Serioauly guys stop for a moment of hate for sake of Allah and think brothers sisters. See where is this all going what happen to the big leaders where did thy go why don’t they sit on the street and let the children’s mothers father be at home just them and the other parties big guys how about that both the sides nothing will happen thy will just keep talking and deaths to both the side if you were to be in the shoes of the other party what would you do what Serioauly would you do I’m know I’m writing which is not gonna make difference some one is gonna reply to this post with hate or any thing but seriously I’m walking in the middle not hate no love let’s be neutral let them the people the leaders come on street just them and the other leaders come on street an fight why the poor why it’s a shame people talk about peace it’s a shame everything infront of the eyes and yet be blind folded is it that great to see a son die does it matter then which side a womb of a mother is shattered does it matter Ida father dies do you still are about side does it matter about sisters who were attacked of any side my friend my people for once spread this we are with no one we live we live we live an when we die is just 3 months And no one cares does it matter which side ask the mothers ask Allah if this is right for any side walk middle say no to both and walk alone like me and thts peace with in you for once just say I don’t want gold nor the sand I just want is to be alone just like me
Shame! the history is telling the lies ane there r people who r supporting such lies strongly!
people of Bh are very peaceful and demanding their rights peacefully with roses! it is the revolution of roses!
Oh god help Bh people.
Bh government is not democratic but a hill of brute!
These are fabricated lies by the shia community, which are mostly persians and iraqi shias , i know people got killed but innocent got killed too and threatned.
a shia can live peacefully in a sunni neighbourhood, but a sunni cant in a shia village, expatriates cant live in thier villages, they target people. they abuse expatriates, specially balochis in shopping malls and public places. at least proper sunni Bahraini’s are far more better, they treat us with respect and give us a good life. im a Half Bahraini and Half Pakistani, my dad is a Bahraini w my mother is Pakistani. and i work in the Special Security Forces. whatever stands infront of my beloved country and its loyalist people, i will make sure to PUT IT DOWN! IRANI’s and IRAQI loyalist can go fuck them selves in thier country
Ples. Just tall the pakstani goverment to stop sending any one worke in polece because they come bahrain for killing and steling the local, of courese its order from the bahrain goverment.the local people are peaceful.
I have alot of photo and video what the police do withe local people.who the kill the local,how the come inside the house they take our many jwlires avery thing this is made by pakstani polce
In eve ru country where people fight for their freedom and democracy will portrayed as unpeaceful fanatics. Give me a break please. Over 40 people have killed either in prisons or on the streets.
All non government human rights organizations around the world have condemned the government sponsored terrorism against the people, and here we have persons like arsalan who shows no respect for the readers and spreads lies.
Change for democracy is now inevitable, the government has no choice but to make it happen instead of continuing their repressive policies even after the BICI report
It seems that Arsalan is one of those Pakistani mercenaries in Bahrain. I live in Bahrain and look at the situation by two eyes, not like Arsalan and many others who are biased. I find the movement in Bahrain is a very peaceful but again faced by suppression and killing by the forces. Those protestors did not kill any pakistani, its the government and the media who fabricate these stories. So my advice to you is look at things as if you are standing in front of God. Wish you best.
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