“Bahrain Forum for Human Rights” inaugurated Monday in “Golden Tulip” Hotel in Beirut a 2-day photo exhibition entitled “Will of the Fields is more Persistent than Rifles of the Army”.

Under the sponsorship of Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, “Bahrain Forum for Human Rights” inaugurated Monday in “Golden Tulip” Hotel in Beirut a 2-day photo exhibition entitled “Will of the Fields is more Persistent than Rifles of the Army”.

The event, which revealed in photos the violations that the Bahraini authority practiced against peaceful, armless demonstrators in the fields, began with Bahraini revolutionary songs, an opening speech for “Bahrain Forum for Human Rights” Chief Youssef Rabih, and another statement for the event sponsor delivered by Sheikh Hasan Al-Masri.

In his statement, Rabih pointed out that the Bahrain Forum in Beirut wanted to deliver a message that “oppression intensifies when democracy is absent”.

He stressed unity between the Shiites and the Sunnis in Bahrain, stating that “Bahraini Sunnis and Shiites, Conservatives and Liberals will always support each other in saying that : We demand freedom and justice… and you must hear this voice.”

The Bahraini activist indicated that “this exhibition responds to the misleading media which boycotted the developments in Bahrain to cover other revolutions that we are also proud of.”

Rabih added that the forum has sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, asking him to interfere in the case of imprisoned Bahraini activist Abdul Hadi Khawaja who has been on a hunger strike for 45 days now.

In an exclusive statement to Al-Manar Website, “Bahrain Forum for Human Rights” chief emphasized that “the peaceful movements and the sacrifices assure that the Bahraini people are full of life, and that the regime’s tanks, armored vehicles and toxic gases cannot destroy them.”

“Photographers are everywhere. They are on the roofs, in the fields, and behind the windows to uncover the real moral crisis of the Bahraini regime,” he said.

For his part, Sheikh Hasan Al-Masri considered that the real Arab Spring is that which calls for human rights, freedom, and justice, adding that “we tell the leaders what Sayyed Moussa Al-Sadr said 30 years ago: Do just or else you will look for your nation and find in the dunghill of history.”

Al-Masri addressed the Bahraini people saying: “You have hit the ideal in demanding freedom and dignity without hurting any citizen or attacking any soldier… You are not asking for the impossible, you are asking for the overthrow of a regime that does not want any good for its people but rather confronted it with bullets and killings.”

 

Israa Al-Fass contributed to this report.