DUBAI: Thousands of supporters of Bahrain’s largely Shia opposition demonstrated peacefully yesterday near Manama, calling for democratic reform in the Gulf country, witnesses said.
Demonstrators, carrying the national flag, marched along a road linking several Shia villages west of the capital, chanting slogans against the regime and urging reforms.
The demonstration, held ahead of Bahrain’s National Day celebrations tomorrow, was called by opposition groups after a ban on organising protests was lifted earlier this week.
The opposition said afterwards that it “will not stop without a true democratic process that will end an era of injustice and tyranny.” Bahrain was shaken by a protest movement in February 2011 led by the Shia majority demanding a constitutional monarchy in the kingdom.
AFP
