'Unlike most popular uprisings and revolutions that have occurred in the Arab world over the last year, some of which have led to a regime change, in Bahrain, the demands of the uprising’s leaders as well as those of the people's were clear from the very beginning of the popular protests. Establishment of a real parliamentary system, appointment of a prime minister based on parliamentary majority, confrontation with economic corruption, elimination of discrimination, and abolition of the law, which grants citizenship to foreigners as means of enforcing demographic change in the country are among the major demands of the Bahraini people.

Bahrain is an island with almost a little more than one million inhabitants. Indigenous people make up only half of the population and the other half is comprised of foreign economic and labor forces. In a country where it is assumed that only half a million of the residents are entitled to political and citizen rights, 30,000 people participate in anti-government protests, which is a large figure.'

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