Destruction of Shia mosques during the 2011 Bahraini uprising information
The 400 year old Sheikh Mohammed al-Barbaghi Mosque being demolished.[1]
During the 2011 Bahraini uprising, as many as 43 Shia mosques[2][3] and tens of other religious structures including graves, shrines and hussainiyas (religious meeting houses) were intentionally destroyed or damaged by the ruling Sunni Bahraini authorities in the country.[4] The widespread action in Shiite villages across this island was seen as part of a government crackdown on Shiite dissidents, although Bahrain's Minister of Justice and Islamic Affairs, Sheikh Khalid bin Ali bin Abdulla al Khalifa, claimed that only mosques illegally built without permission had been targeted.[4]
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights has classified the widespread cultural destruction as "crimes of genocide under the UN Convention on Genocide (1948)."[1]
^ abDiscrimination and deprivation of religious freedom in Bahrain Archived 2014-03-28 at the Wayback Machine, Bahrain Center for Human Rights.
^Bahrain's official tally shows cost to Shiites of mosques crackdown Archived 2013-12-25 at the Wayback Machine, McClatchy Washington Bureau. (May 30, 2011)
^Cite error: The named reference bloomberg1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ abWhile Bahrain demolishes mosques, U.S. stays silent Archived 2012-05-14 at the Wayback Machine, McClatchy Washington Bureau. (May 8, 2011)
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