Helicopters are flying overhead and have been since yesterday. That’s a sure sign of trouble in Bahrain.
Reading Al-Waqt this morning provided the possible answer:
الداخلية: «أم النعسان» مخصصة منالملك للاستخدامات الخاصة بقوة الدÙÂاعصرّؠالوكيل المساعد للشؤونالقانونية ÙÂيوزارة الداخلية، بأنه بشأناعتزام مجموعة منالأشخاص القيام برØÂلة عنطريق البر والبØÂر إلى جزيرة أم النعسان، ÙÂإنه وجب التنويه إلى أنهذه المنطقة (أم النعسان) مخصصة منقبل عاهل البلاد للاستخدامات العسكرية الخاصة بقوة دÙÂاع البØÂرين.
وأضـا٠‘’ولــذا ÙÂإنــها تعــتبر منالمنــاطق ذات الطــابع العسكريوالأمني، وعليه ÙÂإنهــا منالمنــاطق الــتييØÂـظر الاقــتراب منهــا أو القيام بــأينشــاط بــقربها، ومــنيخــال٠ذلك يعـــرض Ù†ÙÂســه للمســاءلة القانونيــة ÙˆÙÂــق المــادة رقــم (135) البند (4) مــنقــانونالعقوبات’’.
That piece above confirms that the third largest island in the Bahraini archipelago – Umm Al-Na’asaan – has been reserved by his majesty to the exclusive use of his military for training purposes. Add to that the southern half of the island which has been so reserved too, and you get the idea of why land prices are so astronomical that a middle class Bahraini citizen can no longer afford to even dream of owning a house or a small plot to plant his roots in.
Looking a bit further in to this issue, I find that people in Malkiya and surrounding villages were preparing a day trip, a picnic to Umm Al-Na’asaan island to celebrate Eid. That resulted in those villages being surrounded by riot police on land, and the coast guard on sea which has reportedly even dragged their boats away from the coast to prevent them from launching them. That was over the last couple of days. Today we have that declaration above.
I’m not sure why they’re complaining really.. Canada, Australia, New Zealand and even India are open and available for easy enough migration.
What are they waiting for?
Bloody rabble rousers!
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Didn’t get it!
What are you suggesting here?
That if I’m a citizen of Bahrain
And if Bahrain is an archipelago
And if the minister of municipalities said that all islands of Bahrain are owned by the government and non of it are privately owned
I still have to migrate to Australia or Canda to have the ability to take my family on a sea trip to one of my country’s islands?!
And please don’t tell me you believe that silly lie about military training!
We all have google earth and we can see what is there what is not there and for sure no single soldier was there for any kind of training except those guards at that “Top secret” palace!
You know what.. even the queen of England let people pass by her Palace, but in our country we can’t even think of reaching nearby the place and for sure doors are open to migration!
Lets rebrand bahrain and say it weren’t so
I found an update about the scheduled visit, its in arabic though.
I dont know where the link dissapered, her is it again.
http://vob.org/index.php?show=news&action=article&id=606&lang=arabic
Why does everybody sound so surprised about this?
@Finlandi, bulls eye amigo.
How dare them visit a “military” area?
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