15.03.2011, 22:39
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Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:54PM
Bahraini lawmaker Ali al-Aswad has described the situation in Manama as catastrophic, calling on the international community to help protesters in the country.
Hospitals in the city cannot accommodate the large number of casualties from the government's violent crackdown on peaceful demonstrators, Aswad told Press TV in a phone interview on Tuesday. He said people cannot access medical centers around the country as either the hospitals have been closed or protesters are blocked from going to the hospitals by Bahraini security and army forces backed by foreigner Arab troops.
He described the situation in Bahrain as a disaster. “You cannot believe it is Bahrain a month back. It's totally different,” regretted the MP with the main opposition Al Wefaq bloc.
He went on to say that the government forces are indiscriminately attacking anybody outside on the street: peaceful protesters as well as people who are trying to guard their cars, going home or are shopping their families' basic needs.
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Two killed and many wounded in violent clashes as king authorises "all necessary measures to protect safety of country".
The king of Bahrain has declared a state of emergency for three months on the island following weeks of anti-government protests, as deadly clashes continued across the country.
An order by the king "authorised the commander of Bahrain's defence forces to take all necessary measures to protect the safety of the country and its citizens," a statement read out on television on Tuesday said. The development comes a day after Saudi-led military forces arrived to support the government, which is facing pressure from the Shia majority to implement reforms.
Al Jazeera's correspondent in the capital, Manama, who we are not naming for security reasons, said the declaration of a state of emergency appeared to have been deliberated upon for some time now. "The last few days Manama has effectively been shut down. So there was a sense that something was going to happen. Then yesterday we had the GCC troops come in," he said.
"I'm standing now in and amongst a demonstration. There are tens of thousands of people streaming past me to the Saudi embassy. There is a great sense of change here."
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