From: William Gladys <william.gladys@tiscali.co.uk>
Date: Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:34 PM
Subject: Fw: British unions back Bahrainis' uprising
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British unions back Bahrainis' uprising
Mon Feb 21, 2011 10:44AM
The UK trade unions have put their weights behind the campaign for rights in the Arab countries by relaying messages of solidarity to their counterparts in Bahrain.
Trade Union Congress (TUC) general secretary Brenden Barber sent a message to general secretary of General Federation of Bahrain Salman Jafar al-Mahfoodh on Sunday, voicing support for the federation's push for democracy.
Trade unions in the Persian Gulf state of Bahrain suspended their decision to stage a general strike on Monday after the regime gave in to their demand for the right to free protest, amid a week-long protest in which the security forces of the federal monarchy violently repressed the protesters.
The surge in Islamic awakening in the Middle East and North Africa entered a new phase when at the weekend, Libyan security forces went on rampage, killing a dozen people in the city of Benghazi almost 1000km to the capital Tripoli.
The death toll from six days of anti-government protests has kept mounting to more than 200 people in Libya as reported by the international Human Rights Watch.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague has condemned Libyan troops' crackdown on anti-regime protesters as "unacceptable and horrifying".
A group of Middle East experts has convened in a meeting in London to pledge their support for the popular uprisings in the region, which have so far succeeded in ousting two Western-backed dictators in Egypt and Tunisia.
The experts warned that despite their public statements the British government as well as the EU and US were trying desperately to "hold up this tottering pack of cards" in the region.
"The rules of the game have changed - for once, it is the people who are driving change," academic Intissar Kherigi told a session on the issue at the Progressive London conference.
"Now it's up to the international community to decide whether to continue its duplicitous and short-sighted policies or to really examine its old assumptions and priorities and readjust itself to the realities of a new Middle East", added Kherigi, whose father Rachid Ghannouchi is the leader of Tunisia's banned Islamic En-Nahda movement.
Middle East expert Omar Ashour told the conference that the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt had successfully "removed the head of the system" but they had not got rid of the apparatus around the ousted dictatorships.
Continued solidarity and resistance was crucial to bring about real democratic change in both countries, he warned.
MOL/HE
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