Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): “There is no room for flattery after what Bassiouni said in his latest statement”, that is what a prominent figure in the protest movement in Bahrain said yesterday after the chairman of Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry had said on a radio interview.
Signs of anger were clear on the face of the prominent figure who is managing the largest files, he says: “Does Bassiouni want to make fun of us? He is dreaming! He has to know that our cause has dumped the credibility of space channels and senior figures into the trash bin, we won’t let anyone whoever that one is to play down with our sons and daughters’ blood, we won’t allow the historically biggest counterfeiting scheme and escaping from a deserved punishment that are supervised by an international judge (...), he has to know that our flesh is bitter”

The prominent figures adds: “Does Mr. Bassiouni think that we were sleeping all that time? We gathered information about the Commission that they can’t imagine in their nightmares. We observed and recorded details and kept them for a day we want them for. Does he think that we don’t understand that he reneged on his promise after the Al-Ayam daily scandal and his scandal, his promise that he said that he would not give any statement to any of the media outlets before publishing the report”


He adds angrily: “What has this population done when it was slain while chanting ‘peaceful’? What have the doctors done so that Mr. Bassiouni says about them they are not angels? Who’s the angel then? Is it the King who has ordered the martial law and gave the green light for the worst and filthiest practices of killing, torture, abuse, imprisonment, insult, raiding homes and demolishing mosques? Then he went ahead and hailed what the Peninsula Shield, the Army, the National Guard, and the mercenary forces had committed. That what you, Mr. Bassiouni, consider as the innocent reformist. Does anyone think that they can sell us and exonerate the wild wolf, and then to get their retiring reward and leave? Bahrain would be only a shame that would chase them if they did it!”

“Bahrain Mirror” asked that prominent figure that remained the whole previous Friday chasing the minute details about Bassiouni’s Commission, hunted what the opposition and the rights groups have of exclusive information. He says in a creased face: “We have plenty but we aren’t rushed, but we’re compelled to imply only the tip of the iceberg. Bassiouni forces us to talk. After his statement, the Minister of what so called Human Rights in Bahrain, to prepare the public opinion and confirm Bassiouni’s ideas, said there is no systematic violations of human rights in Bahrain, and both parties (the government and the population) did mistakes. How bad his description was, when he described the revolutionary young people saying: the revolutionary Shia. That’s a new professional mistake that should be added to his other mistakes since he has come. That is improper in the minimum and a shame in the maximum”.

The tip of the iceberg says that: “There is a contract between a company owned by Bassiouni and the authorities in Bahrain. The contract will be signed immediately after the report has been issued or shortly before that, and the Commission has seen red nights of prostitution, alcohol, and women, arranged by the Intelligence Service in Bahrain. And what Bassiouni said was not correct about his getting the minimum of the salaries received by the judges that the UN appointed. We know the role of the chief of the investigators Mr. Khalid Ahmed Mohiuddin, and Bassiouni’s role in neglecting well-established proofs that condemn the State. Those proofs prove the worst systematic crackdown and the flagrant violations of human rights. We know the number of resignations and dismissals of the Commission and their reasons one by one“.

Our interviewee relaxes his frowns and extends his legs forward and carefully gives more details: “There are two investigators who resigned from the Commission. There are many reasons, some of them are serious, but what I can say is the investigators who resigned disputed about the nature of the Commission, and the excessive relationship of several of its members with the authorities, in short, they smelt something!”

He adds: “Mr. Mahmood Cherif Bassiouni owns a company which is in the process to sign a contract that if it hasn’t signed it yet, it’s a contract with the authority to train the employees in the Ministry of Interior. There is information that questions the Commission’s work integrity, that’s why several investigators left it. Can you imagine that some of the investigators did not accept the constant adulation that Mr. Bassiouni offered to the King? They saw it clearly that he was talking as a junior employee, and he was adamant to stress an image that the world has discovered it was fake and lies, the image of the Reformist King. Many of the commissioners and the investigators found what Bassiouni had said was untrue and questionable”

The information source says: “Those investigators who resigned or preferred to stay and be patient in the Commission can’t talk as they are obliged by the non-disclosure contracts that they signed”.

What about the red night? The prominent figure smiles and says only: “Two members of the Commission were caught in a prostitution case in Bahrain. We scrutinised the source that brought the women to them and all the logistics. It was the State Security Apparatus. It penetrated some members vertically and horizontally. It entered to some of them from their weaknesses. Those two members were Arabs. They were turned around by women and alcohol. They were fired from the Commission. I’m pointing to a tricky point here, that Mr. Bassiouni was the one who personally selected all the investigators in the Commission. There are others who were trapped by different means other than women. The State Security Apparatus was successful in penetrating the Commission and had influence in it. That’s why many complaints were raised about the coldness and neglect by a number of the investigators towards many cases that were not investigated extensively”.


He adds: “Mr. Bassiouni officially denied any resignations, but that’s a lie. We confirm that there were resignations and dismissals”.

What are your notes against Khalid Ahmed Mohiuddin the chief of the investigating team? Our interviewee says: “There are a number of questions raised about Mr. Khalid the chief of the investigating team by major international Human Rights organisations. There is a lot of talk about him in Egypt, but we won’t talk now. Mr. Khalid was the one who made up the problem in the Commission headquarters with the sacked employees [the employees sacked from their jobs in Bahrain after the crackdown]. He was the one who brought the wrong information about the incident to the senior judges, that information didn’t tell what had happened on that day, so that way came the Commission’s statement condemning the sacked employees. We were particularly tracking what Khalid was doing. The files of Khalid and those senior to him will be managed by major international organisations”.

He emphasises: “Mr. Bassiouni and Mr. Khalid were the focal points in the Commission. They formed a lobby to catch all the work parts. Mr. Bassiouni managed the commissioners’ side, while Mr. Khalid managed the investigating team with the case files and information. We received information of resentment from inside the Commission, resentment with Bassiouni and Khalid’s lobbies. They were after any fragile clue to exonerate the authorities. A lady told us in big emotion that they (Bassiouni and Khalid) mocked and played down proofs that had been brought to the Commission by the investigators. They were proofs clearly showing that the authority in Bahrain practices crime, torture and discrimination.  Our population should know that there are people in the Commission who enjoy unique humanitarian and professional sense and some of them discovered the atrocities of the regime, and the injustice that our population suffers. Unfortunately, Bassiouni is the only who remained publically saying that the King was a reformist, he is free in what he says, but we know that he knows what he says is untrue and not reflecting reality, as much as reflecting his interests”.

He goes on to say: “For a long time Khalid Mohiuddin allowed the Intelligence people to park their cars in front of the Commission headquarters, and in a period of time, they didn’t allow anyone to enter the Commission headquarters before being checked by the Intelligence. That is a scandal; it’s not done by a novice!”


What about the financial side? He is silent for a while then he blows his bomb "We knew that Mr. Bassiouni received five thousand dollars daily, the monthly salary for each investigator was ten thousand dollars, and each one of the Commissioners received fifteen thousand dollars a month, can Mr. Bassiouni deny or confirm this information? The accommodation of the Commission members was all at the Ritz Carlton, which is still owned by the prime minister who seems to catch his share of the budget of the Commission in his own indirect way. The accommodation payment for the members of the Commission for all that period was not something little”.

In regard to the Commission budget, he adds: “The official side says it’s three million, but a source from the Commission says it’s five, two million under their disposal, and three were frozen and the source doesn’t know why. Recently, an activist who came from abroad said that the Commission budget was fifteen million Bahraini Dinars”.


All of that was merely the tip of the iceberg? Our interviewee smiles and replies: “And we got more, there is no judge in the world who can escape from the shame and scandal if they choose to neglect the scene of Abdulredha Buhmayed and his friends raising their hands peacefully, while the army bullets poured on them to fall to our ground slain like animals. We challenge all the world’s judges to condemn the most peaceful revolution, a revolution that is blamed for its excessive peacefulness, and then someone comes imagining that they would get away with it from our sea of blood”