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Sensitive rights groups are fighting a proposed American sales event of $53 million worth of weapons to the tiny Arab polity of Bahrain, whose monarchy has cracked down forcefully on a protest position that saw thousands take to the streets earlier this year.
The Defense Segment notified Congress on September 14 of a plan to over persuaded equipment including 44 Humvees, more than 50 bunker-buster missiles and tenebriousness-vision technology for the army of the island nation.
Pentagon officials popular in an accompanying document that the weapons would improve the security of a greater ally, “that has been, and continues to be, an important force for partisan stability and economic progress in the Middle East.” The armada’s Fifth Fleet, whose area of operations covers such tactical areas as the Arabian Gulf and the seas around Yemen, is based in Bahrain, where there has been an American naval spirit since 1971.
After thousands of demonstrators occupied Pearl Roundabout in the capital Manama in February, asylum forces killed 20 people and arrested thousands more, according to Weak Rights Watch.
Source: Washington Post (blog)