A recent example of non-reference to victims of violence which again was neither documented by the BCHR or Human Rights organizations was the death of Ahmed Al Dhufairi who suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns and shrapnel from an explosive planted between burning tyres on the 16th of April, 2012.
He passed away two months later in hospital and was laid to rest on the 9th of June 2012.
During a live discussion Hussam Al Hadad's death was mentioned as is documented by the BCHR however the documentation and condemnation of the death of Ahmed Al Dhufairi by the BCHR was never raised.
More alarming was the fact that the reporter wasn't aware of the recent death either or the rest of the opposing panel. Instead they chose to mock a prominent surgeon. Is that what human rights defenders are supposed to do? The panel went along with the mockery ignorant of the facts diverting the viewers' attention.
In another unreported incident by the BCHR, a mother and her son were the innocent victims of a gas cylinder explosion outside their house in Bilad Al Qadeem and again, another failure to report. These are just a few critical cases mentioned, there are many more.
Despite the fact that the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights was closed in September 2004 a number of human rights organizations fall under the umbrella of the BCHR. Therefore I specifically raised the study based on the BCHR practice and the way the information is disseminated.
Several similar groups have been identified, including, for example, the Migrant Workers Protection Society, the National Committee of People Deprived of Citizenship, Youth Human Rights Society, the Anti-Torture Committee and the Unemployment Committee all of which come under the BCHR umbrella" or "management".
It is a disappointment and absurd that human rights activists that are in the position of defending every human right representing well established NGO's around the world failed to report or condemn human rights abuses against expatriates of Asian descent while in the meantime reporting on maids mistreated when it suits a certain agenda. The BICI reported those claims and yet to date the question remains unanswered as to why the NGO's failed to condemn or report others.
While the incidents that took place against anti-government protesters were reported, they failed to report on the incidents that took place against innocent bystanders by the anti-government protesters which still carry the phrase peaceful by the international mass media and NGO's. Attacks that took place during the time should be reported regardless whether alleged or not as they have other alleged cases that have been turned into facts.
In the case of the BCHR while highlighting cases that covered an anti-government agenda, the human rights advocates failed to highlight victims that were not a part of the anti-government movement.
Regardless of their views or sect, NGO's and activists are in power to represent communities as a whole not who they support. This is the first basic principal that should be administered when representing an NGO that stands for human rights.
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