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Bahrain International Circuit chairman Zayed R Alzayani has condemned as terrorists those who use violence to protest in his country.
The Feb 14 Youth Coalition, an underground movement, this week embarked on a week-long campaign entitled ‘volcanic flames’, as part of their condemnation of the Bahrain Grand Prix.
Slickly-produced videos have appeared on YouTube of the protesters blocking main roads with tyres before setting fire to them, sending the ordinary public travelling in their cars scattering to safety.
It is incidents such as those that anger Alzayani.
But the man behind the track that this weekend stages its ninth running of the event has no qualms with those who peacefully call for reform in this troubled Gulf island kingdom.
“I am totally against violence. No matter what cause you have you have no right to disrupt the normal process of life,” said Alzayani, speaking in a select briefing with a handful of international media.
“That is not democracy, that is terrorism. There are no two ways about it.
“Whether you do that hiding behind human rights, politics, religion, it’s just wrong to do it.
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