For more than two years the people of Bahrain have been taking to the streets and dying in their attempt to end a brutal dictatorship. Meanwhile the West spouts about supporting the "Arab Spring" while selling arms to that brutal dictatorship. While the people die on the streets of Bahrain, a British arms sales team from United Kingdom Trade and Investment Defence and Security Organisation, (UKTIDSO) has been promoting weapons sales to that brutal Baharian dictatorship. Between 2008 and 2012 the UK has sold almost £13 million worth of weapons to Bahrain and despite the country's brutal record suppressing protest, has sold them £4 million worth of small arms.
According to ekklesia On 25 April, Prince and Royal Guard Commander, Lieutenant Colonel
Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, visited Counter Terror Expo 2013 in
London. In an official statement he stressed the importance of “new
technologies to contain the detrimental repercussions of terrorism.”
In 2012 a human rights group alleged that the prince was "personally
engaged" in beating, flogging and kicking pro-democracy protestors in
April 2011. Documentation describes how Sheikh Nasser, who is the
president of the Bahrain Olympic Committee, launched "a punitive
campaign to repress Bahraini athletes who had demonstrated their support for the peaceful pro-democracy movement." The prince denied the
allegations. The UN Rapporteur on Torture has had a planned visit to
Bahrain indefinitely postponed by the Bahrain government.
