Building a British naval base in Bahrain is a ’symbolic choice’ – for no clear reason - Comment - Voices

Building a British naval base in Bahrain is a ’symbolic choice’ – for no clear reason - Comment - Voices - The Independent
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There has always been a strong strain of hypocrisy in the claims of the US and Britain to support secular democracy and civil rights in countries such as Libya and Syria. They do so in alliance with Sunni theocratic absolute monarchies such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and UAE which understandably have no interest in spreading secular democracy anywhere. In 2011, UAE said it would refuse to join the coalition against the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi if there was any criticism of Bahraini repression.

Bahrain naval base ’reward’ for British silence on human rights
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