Weaponizing Tear Gas:Bahrain's Unprecedented Use of Toxic Chemical Agents Against Civilians

We recover this 2012 report from P4HR from the English and Reports-Informes-Recursos sections. Situation in the country has not changed and teargas continues being used massively against peaceful protesters. 

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Weaponizing Tear Gas:Bahrain's Unprecedented Use of Toxic Chemical Agents Against Civilians by Holly G. Atkinson, MD, FACP Richard Sollom, MA, MPH

Activists in front of the South Korean embassy in London on October 25th, 2013 protesting against the (then) planned massive export of teargas from a South Korean company to Bahrain authorities. Picture from the Stop the Arms Trade campaign.

Full report (pdf)

Executive Summary

Richard Sollom's testimony to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (US Congress) on Bahrain's use of teargas against civilians.

 
The Bahrain government’s indiscriminate use of tear gas as a weapon has resulted in the maiming, blinding, and even killing of civilian protesters, and must stop at once while the government reassesses the use of such toxic chemical agents. 

Zizek on 2005 riots in France's banlieues. A politically incorrect (and timely necessary) reflexion.

A short piece from November 2005  by Slovenian professor Slavoj Zizek on urban violences and social decomposition in France (extendible to western societies and to certain degree US). Included in the special issue Les émeutes urbaines de Novembre 2005 put together by Multitudes (revue politique, artistique et philosophique) with contributions from Angela Davis and Tariq Ramadan  (with a piece on UK perceptions). No editing. Added some pictures, hyperlinks and related materials. 

Looking for a political voice, somewhere near Paris at dawn in November 2005 Picture from La Banlieue en replay

Some politically incorrect reflexions on violence in France

  Slavoj Zizek

Two parallels are often evoked apropos the recent violent outbursts in France : the New Orleans looting after Katrina hurricane and May 68. In spite of significant differences, lessons can be drawn from both parallels. With regard to New Orleans, the Paris fires had a sobering effect on those European intellectuals who used New Orleans to emphasize the advantage of the European welfare state model over the US wild capitalism - now we know it can happen here also.