The Pearl Roundabout crushed
2011 · Event
Bahrain's month-long protest camp at the Pearl Roundabout is cleared by force — days after Saudi and Emirati troops cross the causeway to shore up the monarchy — and the monument itself is demolished to erase the symbol. The counter-revolution's template is set: where the Gulf's rulers stand together, the spring does not pass.
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