Manama: A large number of protesters gathered at Pearl Square on Wednesday in protest against King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa.The protest started on late Tuesday. The protesters in Bahrain carried defaced posters of the king and the crown prince.
The marchers were calling for further demonstrations at the funeral of a demonstrator shot dead on Tuesday, news reports said.
What started as an online call for a “Day of Rage” progressed within 24 hours to an exuberant group of demonstrators, cheering, waving flags, setting up tents and taking over the grassy traffic circle beneath the towering monument of a pearl in the heart of Manama, the capital.
The 18 members of Parliament from the Islamic National Accord Association, the traditional opposition, announced that they were suspending participation in the legislature.
The mood of exhilaration stood in marked contrast to a day that began in sorrow and violence, when mourners who had gathered to bury a young man killed the night before by the police clashed again with the security forces.
Bahrin is best known as a Persian Gulf base for the US navy’s Fifth Fleet. Its ruler, King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, is an important ally of the United States in fighting terrorism and countering Iranian influence in the region.
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