Bahrain Video Special: "Riots", "Reform", & "Brutal Interrogation" --- The Kingdom from 1956 to 1996

Fast forward to 1996 where, filming covertly, the BBC finds the antecedents of today's images: imprisonment of people simply talking to foreign journalists, "brutal interrogations", and the "daily routine" of youths burning tyres: "To the outsider, it looks more like Israel's intifada [of the occupied Palestinians] than the Gulf States once renowned as desert oases of stability and reliable friends of the West"....

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