Abolish monarchy, chant Shia Muslims
BAHRAIN – Chanting, singing and waving roses, Bahrain’s Shia Muslims ran in their tens of thousands back into Pearl Square in the centre of Manama after two days of bloodshed as police and soldiers battled to keep them from the streets of the capital. The army tanks withdrew from the area – Bahrain’s version of Cairo’s Tahrir Square – in the morning, and then more than 1000 riot police, standing in ranks before the democracy protesters, suddenly retreated. Several of them ran away, pursued by women in chadors waving flowers. Just why the Bahraini military, after firing live bullets into the crowds 24 hours earlier, allowed the protesters to take back the square yesterday was a mystery to…
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Abolish monarchy, chant Shia Muslims
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