Sheikh Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa has lasted for 1999 on the small island kingdom of Bahrain Although some protesters on Thursday has the slogan chanted "Down with the Al Khalifa," yet his throne is not yet endangered, but a warning - even for the rulers in the neighborhood - the riots in Bahrain are all.
Sheikh Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa has apologized for the brutal actions of the security forces on the central square of the capital Manama Pearl, which was apparently ordered by the family coming from the Prime Minister: Sheikh Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa. Sheikh Hamad has lasted for 1999 on the small island kingdom of Bahrain, comprising besides the two main islands of Bahrain and Al Muharraq still some some very small islands.
Sheikh Hamad is the successor of his father, Emir Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, has done a great deal to the modernization of the country. Since 2002, with Sheikh Hamad the title king (malik). Theoretically, since Bahrain is a constitutional monarchy, but it lacks the democratic institutions.
A despot, however, is not the ruler. On 28 January 1950-born Sheikh Hamad was trained as soldiers, according to studies at Cambridge, he graduated from American and British military academies, including the famous Sandhurst, like so many rulers of those parts of Arabia, who were under British influence.
Like the entire ruling family, the king is committed to Sunni Islam. Since seventy percent of his subjects but Shi'ites, it always comes back to outbreaks of discontent, the Shiites complain of discrimination in many areas of public life. Many of them belong to the poorer strata of this not to be poor country whose oil reserves will run out of course and that is why become a financial center, service center and aviation hub.
As in the 17 Century and the mid-18 Century Bedouin tribes from the interior of the Arabian Peninsula, migrated to the east coast, were a few - among the Al Sabah - to Kuwait, others, like the Al Thani of Qatar. The Al Khalifa, who were initially in Kuwait, took over in 1783, however the rule over Bahrain.
For the Shiites living there who had heard at times even to Persia. Especially since the Shiite revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, there were repeated once unrest in Bahrain, but it was also time and again to summon the unity of Sunnis and Shiites. This time, the demonstrations are not isolated but part of a recorded protest, the large parts of the Arab world, from Tunisia to Egypt and Jordan to Yemen.
Bahrain calls for comprehensive reforms of its political system, which in 2001 were also considered before, if it is to endure. Not least, the Americans, whose fifth Fleet is there, this is an important concern.
Sheikh Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa has apologized for the brutal actions of the security forces on the central square of the capital Manama Pearl, which was apparently ordered by the family coming from the Prime Minister: Sheikh Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa. Sheikh Hamad has lasted for 1999 on the small island kingdom of Bahrain, comprising besides the two main islands of Bahrain and Al Muharraq still some some very small islands.
Sheikh Hamad is the successor of his father, Emir Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, has done a great deal to the modernization of the country. Since 2002, with Sheikh Hamad the title king (malik). Theoretically, since Bahrain is a constitutional monarchy, but it lacks the democratic institutions.
A despot, however, is not the ruler. On 28 January 1950-born Sheikh Hamad was trained as soldiers, according to studies at Cambridge, he graduated from American and British military academies, including the famous Sandhurst, like so many rulers of those parts of Arabia, who were under British influence.
Like the entire ruling family, the king is committed to Sunni Islam. Since seventy percent of his subjects but Shi'ites, it always comes back to outbreaks of discontent, the Shiites complain of discrimination in many areas of public life. Many of them belong to the poorer strata of this not to be poor country whose oil reserves will run out of course and that is why become a financial center, service center and aviation hub.
As in the 17 Century and the mid-18 Century Bedouin tribes from the interior of the Arabian Peninsula, migrated to the east coast, were a few - among the Al Sabah - to Kuwait, others, like the Al Thani of Qatar. The Al Khalifa, who were initially in Kuwait, took over in 1783, however the rule over Bahrain.
For the Shiites living there who had heard at times even to Persia. Especially since the Shiite revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, there were repeated once unrest in Bahrain, but it was also time and again to summon the unity of Sunnis and Shiites. This time, the demonstrations are not isolated but part of a recorded protest, the large parts of the Arab world, from Tunisia to Egypt and Jordan to Yemen.
Bahrain calls for comprehensive reforms of its political system, which in 2001 were also considered before, if it is to endure. Not least, the Americans, whose fifth Fleet is there, this is an important concern.
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