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January 25, 2012

NYT: In Bahrain, worries grow of violent Shiite-Sunni confrontation

by Souad Mekhennet
The New York Times

MANAMA, BAHRAIN — Mohammed Ibrahim, 19, a Shiite student at the University of Bahrain, says he has gotten used to the tear gas the police use to disperse protests, which he and his friends attend every Friday.

Suspended for several months after the violent suppression of last year’s pro-democracy movement, he recently was allowed back on campus.

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