Thursday, February 17, 2011

BAHRAIN.......THEIR DAY OF RAGE FOR FREEDOM.....17/02/2011

A motorcycle lies on its side next to opposition protesters' tents in Manama's Pearl Square on February 17, 2011. Two people were killed overnight as Bahrain's security forces moved in to clear protesters camped out in a central Manama square, relatives of the dead said.






A wounded Shiite Bahraini demonstrator rests in a hospital in Manama after beign assaulted by riot police on February 17, 2011. Two people were killed overnight as Bahrain's security forces moved in to clear protesters camped out in a central Manama square, relatives of the dead said.







A wounded Shiite Bahraini demonstrator arrives at a hospital in Manama after beign assaulted by riot police on February 17, 2011. Two people were killed overnight as Bahrain's security forces moved in to clear protesters camped out in a central Manama square, relatives of the dead said.






A wounded Shiite Bahraini demonstrator is taken to a hospital in Manama after beign assaulted by riot police on February 17, 2011. Two people were killed overnight as Bahrain's security forces moved in to clear protesters camped out in a central Manama square, relatives of the dead said.






A wounded Shiite Bahraini demonstrators is looked after at a hospital in Manama after beign assaulted by riot police on February 17, 2011. Two people were killed overnight as Bahrain's security forces moved in to clear protesters camped out in a central Manama square, relatives of the dead said.







Bahraini soldiers in tanks and armored vehicles stand ready Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011, near a main highway west of the capital of Manama, Bahrain. Armed patrols prowled neighborhoods and tanks appeared in the streets for the first time Thursday after riot police with tear gas and clubs drove protesters from a main square where they had demanded sweeping political change in this tiny kingdom.







MANAMA, BAHRAIN - FEBRUARY 17: A wounded protester sits in a hospital bed with shotgun injuries after at least three people died and hundreds were left injured when police stormed an anti-government protester camp in the capital's Pearl Square on February 17, 2011 in Manama, Bahrain. Police moved into Pearl Square overnight using batons and tear gas to clear protesters from their makeshift camp, resulting in fatalities and a large number of casualties.



MANAMA, BAHRAIN - FEBRUARY 17: Ahmed Butaki embraces his slain brother Mohmoud Butaki at a hospital morgue on February 17, 2011 in Manama, Bahrain. Mohmoud Butaki was one of at least five people killed after police stormed a makeshift anti-government protester camp using batons and tear gas to clear demonstrators, resulting in fatalities and a large number of casualties. Protests have erupted against the absolute monarchy in Bahrain as anti-government turmoil continues to spread across the Middle East.







Bahraini protestors run for cover after police fired tear gas canisters to disperse them in the village of Diraz, northwest of Bahrain, on February 14, 2011 during a demonstration called for on Facebook and inspired by similar initiatives which led to the ouster of the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt.




Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheik Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, during a press conference in Manama, Bahrain, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011.


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