On 14 March, 1,000 troops from Saudi Arabia and 500 troops from UAE entered Bahrain and crushed the uprising. After a month, the government of Bahrain requested troops and police aid from the Gulf Cooperation Council. Protesters in Manama camped for days at the Pearl Roundabout, which became the centre of the protests. As part of the revolutionary wave of protests in the Middle East and North Africa following the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia, the Bahraini protests were initially aimed at achieving greater political freedom and equality for the majority Shia population, and expanded to a call to end the monarchy of Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa following a deadly night raid on 17 February 2011 against protesters at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama, known locally as Bloody Thursday.
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The Bahraini protests were a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of non-violent civil disobedience and later some violent resistance in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain. The protests were inspired by the unrest of the 2011 Arab Spring and 2011–12 Iranian protests and escalated to daily clashes after the Bahraini government repressed the revolt with the support of Gulf Cooperation Council and Peninsula Shield Force. The Bahraini uprising of 2011 was a series of anti-government protests in Bahrain led by the Shia-dominant Bahraini Opposition from 2011 until 2014.
Clockwise from top-left: Protesters raising their hands towards the Pearl Roundabout on 19 February 2011 Teargas usage by security forces and clashes with protesters on 13 March Over 100,000 Bahrainis taking part in the " March of loyalty to martyrs", on 22 February clashes between security forces and protesters on 13 March Bahraini armed forces blocking an entrance to a Bahraini village.
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