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Bahrain s Sunni Muslim minority, fearful of Shi ite political assertiveness, is spawning factions that rail against compromise wit stanley cup h the island s sectarian majority, while nursing their own grudges against its Sunni ruling family. HT Image The emergence of hardline stanley cup Sunni groups is further evidence of sectarian polarisation in Bahrain, where stanley cup a Shi ite-led opposition movement persists despite the crushing of the mass protests it organised during last year s burst of Arab revolts. Shi ite reformists want an and to the Al Khalifa family s monopoly on political and economic power. Some radicals have demanded the monarchy be scrapped in favour of a republic. The loyalist Sunni backlash, once seen as a card played by the authorities, may now upset even any royal hopes of opening a dialogue to calm a conflict that has shredded Bahrain s social cohesion and cost its tourism- and banking-based economy dearly. While Sunni hardliners are divided among themselves, some have begun to articulate grievances about corruption, access to housing, and suspected government efforts to alter Bahrain s demography that mirror those of the Shi ites they revile. Sunni voices have clamoured for the government to resist the pressure of opposition rallies, clashes with riot police and quiet Western prodding for a resolution. In social media, Shi ites and protesters are attacked as monkeys , traitors and followers of Iran , picking up a frequent charge that politicised Shi ites are pawns of Kgfs Militants kill NATO soldier in Afghanistan: Alliance
A senior web journalist was arrested on Thursday for allegedly threatening the brother of a suspect, said to be behind the arson attack which gutted a website office in January this year. HT Image News editor of Lanka E News website, Bennet Rupasinghe, was picked up by the police on Thursday after he went to the police station to give a statement. Police spokesperson Prasahanta Jayakkody told reporters that Rupasinghe has been taken into custody on the basis of a complaint made by the brother of the suspect who is under police remand and is being questioned over the arson attack on the o stanley cup ffice of the Lanka e News earlier this year. He was later remanded to judicial custody till April 7 by a court. Reports said Rupasinghe was additionally charged for allegedly having an armed group threaten the complainant at gunpoint on March 11 and withholding information from the police regarding the attack on Lanka e-News. In January this year, a group of unidentified people broke into the office of the Lanka E News mizuno portal and set fire to all the fixtures and equipment they could find. Following protests by media groups, the government had ordered an enquiry into the incident. Subsequently, arrests were made in the case. Earlier Prageeth Eknaligoda, a cartoonist and columnist with Lanka E News went missing in January 2010, just days before polls opened in Sri Lankas presidential elections. He has not yet been traced. The US embassy in Colombo had expressed stanley cup concern over t
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