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60 Records of Bahrain
REPORT

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Your Highness charged uo with 'the task of finding
out what happened in the vicinity of: the Port on July 1 last*
Your Committee oat fron\ the 7th to 10th July incluoive and have
taken evidence of twenty-oeven witnesses. A li3t of ouitable
police witnosBos wao given uo by the Adviser and we have heard

moot of these, Abd Ali Alawat one of thooe persona invited
to oit at the Enquiry, volunteered to aaoiot your Committee
in finding Shia witneooes who had been present near the Port,
He produced three witneooes who had been wounded and four

witnesses who had boen on the road Jjorth of the Port when
the shooting took place. Your Committee are moot grateful to
Abd Ali Alawat for his efforts. He endeavoured to find
witnesses who were present in the fort compound but he informed
us that he wao unable to find anyone who would admit having

been there. One witneoo Mu1air bin Abdulla Zaharran came
forward to offer his evidence. Your Committee was most grateful
to him for his public spirited action as he proved to be an

entirely independent witness.
On careful consideration of the evidence given your
Committee find the facts were as follows:-
There had been organised a demonstration of Barharnas
to proceed to H.M. Political Agency in Manamah in order to
obtain security. We were unable to ascertain from the witnesses

what security they were seeking but it was clear that they had
intended t0 go to the Agency. The .collection of the Barharnas
seems to have been well organised, and at least six buses

were used to bring them from the villages, These buses had
their number plates obscured presumably to avoid identification.
A very considerable crowd congregated near the Moarain Mosque
North of the Port.
About 10 o*clock the crowd which was very considerable

in this area poured into the Port gate through the wire fence,
i /across
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