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Report of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry 40 Pakistanis in Alkuthoot Restaurant and tried to set it on fire. However, the report states, “with the help of community leaders and a Shia Imam, the protestors freed the locked-up Pakistanis”. 1516. The Commission also received information about a number of incidents in which attacks against expatriates took place in their homes. Late in the evening of 13 March 2001, a group of individuals entered a residential building in Manama that was inhabited mostly by Asian workers. The group began attacking residents, among whom was a Pakistani citizen named Mr Abdul Malik Gholam Rasul, who was beaten to death. Later Mr Farid Maqbul was attacked and sustained severe injuries from which he subsequently died. As the night proceeded, more cases of attacks against Asian expatriates were recorded. A Pakistani construction worker and Muezzin (person who performs the Islamic call to prayer) suffered serious brain injuries after he was brutally assaulted and had his tongue severely lacerated. Commission investigators reviewed photographs and the medical report confirming the extent of his injuries and visited him at the hospital where he was in a vegetative state. 749 One individual stated that on 13 March 2011 protestors broke into his house in Manama and demanded that he show his identification. He alleges that they beat him with a baseball bat, fracturing his arm, and that whilst beating him they old him that Bahrain was only for Bahrainis and not for Asians. 1517. One complainant reported that on 14 March 2011 he awoke at around 20:00 to find a group of 30-40 youths breaking into his residence carrying knives and steel rods. According to his statement he and other individuals living at the residence were beaten because they were Pakistanis despite telling their attackers that they were labourers and not affiliated with the Bahraini Police. One of the victims claims that: “They want us to leave Bahrain. Pakistani people have jobs in [the Police Department] that [the Bahrainis] think should be theirs”. According to a number of Pakistanis who were interviewed by the Commission, they believed that attacks were carried out by Shia who hated Pakistanis and mistakenly believed them to be soldiers in the Bahrain security forces. 1518. Another complainant reported that on 14 March 2011 protestors broke into a friend’s home while he was visiting. The protestors asked him if he was a police officer and asked for his identification. The complainant stated that both he and his friends were beaten and kicked before being dragged onto the street where hundreds of protestors were waiting. A video available on the internet showed protestors putting swords to their throats and threatening them. The complainant reported that they were then taken to the GCC Roundabout where the beating continued. Eventually they were taken to SMC where they were again beaten. He reported that a nurse refused to treat him, stating that “[W]e do not want Indians here, slaughter them!”. Along with his friends, the complainant was forced to stand against a wall and beaten. The complainant claimed that they were shown plastic bags and told 749 When Commission investigators visited this individual on 28 October 2011, he was still in a vegetative state. 370
Chapter VIII — Allegations of Violence by Non-Governmental Actors that they were to be used to carry their bodies. During the ordeal they were accused of being police officers, which they continued to deny. 1519. The Commission also reviewed a number of videos which appeared to show violence against South Asians. a. In March 2011 Bahrain Television showev video footage of alleged crimes committed against South Asian expatriate workers at the hands of some demonstrators. 750 The video depicts demonstrators seemingly at the beginning of a confrontation, but does not indicate the circumstances or extent of the situation. The video then shows the bodies of two individuals lying on the street. The circumstances related to their deaths are unclear from the video. The video then shows injured South and Southeast Asians receiving medical treatment. Again, the circumstances related to their injuries are unclear from the video. b. Another video aired during the same period by the same channel depicted South Asian expatriate workers being pulled out of an ambulance at the hospital. 751 The video depicts an injured person on a gurney, followed by two individuals in handcuffs, being taken out of an ambulance and into the hospital. As the injured are escorted into the hospital, it appears that one individual attempts to kick one of the injured individuals, and other onlookers push forward in order to get closer but are held back by what appear to be security personnel. c. The Dubai-based Al Arabiya news channel aired a video of paramedics, who appeared to join the protesters in hitting injured Indian workers who had been hospitalised. According to Al Arabiya, foreign workers were being assaulted by protesters in order to undermine the national economy. d. Another video showed a group of protesters including some in a vehicle marked with a Red Crescent running over a Pakistani policeman multiple times. 752 e. A video submitted by the government depicted a masked individual approaching a bus and attacking the driver, who appeared to be foreign. However, the identity or political affiliation, if any, of the assailant could not be ascertained. 1520. The Commission received statements from 19 complainants indicating that foreign nationals were discriminated against and mistreated by 750 YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbpJ7iiBinc&skipcontrinter=1 accessed 4 October 2011. 751 YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbMmbNOGl9s accessed 4 October 2011. See Chapter V. 752 Al Arabiya TV, http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/03/18/142009.html accessed 4 October 2011. 371
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