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Executing activists, takes Al Khalifah monarchy closer to its end: Expert

Sunday, 15 January 2017 3:51 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 15 January 2017 3:51 PM ]

This file photo shows Bahraini police violently cracking down on protesters.

Bahrain has executed three anti-regime Shia activists over their alleged role in a 2014 bomb attack, amid widespread public anger against the death verdicts.

Catherine Shakdam, director of Shafaqna Institute for Middle Eastern Studies, believes the Al Khalifah is a “despicable” and “illegitimate” regime which feels empowered and entitled to conduct murder.

“I do not really care what kind of justification they are going to use or what legality they are going to involve trying to portray this [execution] as some kind of an act of justice. This is not an act of justice. This is an act of murder, repression and genocide,” the analyst told Press TV in an interview on Sunday.

However, she said, the Al Khalifah has literally signed the end of its monarchy with this execution, adding that when a regime feels the need to murder its people to justify its own existence, it is on its way out.

Shakdam further noted that the Al Khalifah regime is trying to portray the movement in Bahrain as a sectarian one, and that it only seeks to prevent the Bahraini people from achieving their rights to democracy and political self-determination.

She further stated that the Bahraini people will continue their fight despite the regime’s crackdown.

Shakdam also criticized the United States and Britain for supporting and even defending the Bahraini regime on the international scene.

She also opined that it is time for the world to wake up and realize that their actions are emboldening the Al Khalifah regime that only pretends to want to carry out reforms.

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