Wednesday
Jan042012
Bahrain Feature: An Uprising In The Numbers (Amiri)
See also Bahrain 1st-Hand: @MariamAlSarraj & the Raid on Salihiya
Population of Bahrain: 1.2 million
Number of citizens: 535,000
Percent of citizens who are Shia Muslim: 70
Percent of those in government: 13
Number of senior positions they fill in the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Cabinet Affairs, the National Guard, the Supreme Defense Council and the Royal Court: 0
tagged Bahrain, CounterPunch, Rannie Amiri