UK silent on Bahrain violations for own behefits : Ex-MP
Press TV has conducted an interview with Jalal Fairooz, a former Bahraini legislator from London, to ask for his insight on a protest rally in Bahrain against the construction of Britain’s new permanent military base in the Persian Gulf country.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: It seems that these calls by the Bahraini people are not being broadcast in Western mainstream media. What do you think about that? And second, it looks like Britain is actually putting trade and its own interests above human rights when it comes to Bahrain and countries who are allies.
Fairooz: It’s long been known for the British government to support the dictatorships in the Middle East and it will of course overlook the human rights violations and all the crises happening in that region for its own, literally, immediate interest.
It just means to sell more arms to these countries and just gain some very cheap oil from them. Recently, Bahrain offered to receive the British military, the naval base and Bahrain is paying 23 million pounds for that base.
And the United Kingdom of course will keep mum on that account about all the atrocities in Bahrain. Just in the past week, in UK parliament there were three written questions to the UK government regarding the atrocities in Bahrain.
And all even though there were three different questions, but the answer was exactly the same, ‘Yes We are working closely with the Bahraini government and we are trying as much to convince them to have international standards about the human rights situation.’ But what is going on is you have the UK intelligence and UK consultants there in Bahrain for [what it calls helping] the Bahraini government, but on the contrary you can see the deterioration in human rights situation.
The UK is saying that it is training the judges and giving some consultants for their judicial system, but you can see how repression is being done on the Bahraini people and the opposition leaders by the judges and the judiciary system. So yes it is UK again that it will hold its ethics under its leg and foot just for the sake of some pounds.
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