Alwaght - Hundreds of Bahraini protesters on Friday clashed with regime's security forces who fired bird shot and tear gas to disperse them during a rally over the detention of al Wefaq opposition leader .
Western-backed Bahraini regime has seen outbreaks of pro-democracy revolution since security forces quelled 'Islamic Awakening' movements in 2011. Bahrain's majority Shiite Muslims have demanded reforms and a bigger share in government in the Sunni-ruled kingdom, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet is based. Britain also is going to establish a military base there .
The discontent has worsened since the arrest on Dec. 28 of Sheikh Ali Salman, a Shiite Muslim cleric who heads the al-Wefaq Islamic Society, after he led a protest against last November's election, boycotted by the opposition .
Al-Wefaq did not take part in the November poll, saying that parliament would not have enough power and that voting districts favored the kingdom’s Sunni Muslims .
Al-Wefaq said at least five protesters were injured. It sent to journalists photos of one person with bird shot injuries to his back and another with blood-stains on his head .
Bahraini regime, for a long time, has been busy naturalizing Sunnis from abroad so that they would eventually outnumber Shiites in the small Persian Gulf kingdom. Al Khalifa has planned to tip the demographic balance of Bahrain in favor of Sunnis in order to save its dictatorship that will be certainly toppled if a democratic election is held. Al Khalifa security forces have suppressed Bahraini pro-democracy protests that erupted on the island during the Islamic Awakening three years ago. They have killed dozens of protesters via bullet and toxic gas, jailed and tortured hundreds without trial exiled many dissidents and revoked their citizenship. All aforementioned crimes were committed by Al Khalifa because international organization and powers did nothing but watching and keeping silence.
