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was visiting Bahrain. Crowds of protesters lined the streets to shout anti-British slogans and threw sand at stones at the Foreign Secretary's entourage. A number of crew members, including a stewardess, were left injured. Abdulrahman Al Bakir, the secretary of the NUC, was among the leaders of the
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demonstrations. He was asked to leave the country after the incident for an extended stay abroad, and departed to Egypt. Al Bakir returned to Bahrain September 1956.
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The NUC successfully orchestrated a number of general strikes and demonstrations in the country to push for its demands. In March 1956, British
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The original committee was made up of four Sunni representatives and four Shi'i representatives. The members were:
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In October 1956, the NUC called for strikes and demonstrations against the Israeli-Anglo-French attack on
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Tribe and state in Bahrain: The transformation of social and political authority in an Arab state
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Mina al-bahrayn ila al-manfaa, 'sant halaneh', [From Prison to Exile 'Saint Helene']
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In June 1961 the three prisoners were released from Saint Helena after a successful
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action, and were later paid financial compensation from the British government.
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Contentious politics in Bahrain: From ethnic to national and vice versa
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members of the population. Its foundations were laid in the journal,
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Readings in the trial of the National Union Committee leadership
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Charles Belgrave. (1960). Personal Column, (London: Hutchinson)
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Index


a series
History of Bahrain
Arms of Bahrain
Dilmun
Tylos
Awal
Historical region
Islam in Bahrain
Al-Ala'a Al-Hadrami
Qarmatians
Uyunid dynasty
Usfurid
Jarwanid
Jabrid dynasty
Portuguese occupation
Muqrin ibn Zamil
Antonio Correia
Safavid hegemony
1717 Omani invasion of Bahrain
1783–1971
1783 Bani Utbah invasion of Bahrain
Perpetual Truce of Peace
and Friendship (1861)

1895 coup d'etat attempt
Administrative reforms of the 1920s
first oil well (1932)
National Union Committee
March 1965 Intifada
Bahraini independence survey, 1970
State of Bahrain

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