Bahrain Snapshot: The Destruction of the Mosques (Gutman)
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 9:11
Scott Lucas in Bahrain, EA Middle East and Turkey, McClatchy News Service, Middle East and Iran, Roy Gutman

Authorities have held secret trials where protesters have been sentenced to death, arrested prominent mainstream opposition politicians, jailed nurses and doctors who treated injured protesters, seized the health care system that had been run primarily by Shiites, fired 1,000 Shiite professionals and canceled their pensions, detained students and teachers who took part in the protests, beat and arrested journalists, and forced the closure of the only opposition newspaper.

Nothing, however, has struck harder at the fabric of this nation, where Shiites outnumber Sunnis nearly 4 to 1, than the destruction of Shiite worship centers.

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