Weekly Position: Reviving “Martyrs’ Day” as a Banner in Confronting the Project of Extermination and the Tyranny of the Khalifi Entity

Weekly Position: Reviving “Martyrs’ Day” as a Banner in Confronting the Project of Extermination and the Tyranny of the Khalifi Entity

Issued by the Political Council of the February 14 Youth Revolution Coalition — this is its text:

In the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful

Our people in Bahrain are preparing to commemorate Martyrs’ Day on December 17 under the slogan “Our Martyrs, Torches of Light,” launched by the opposition forces this year. It expresses the spiritual, intellectual, and jihadi meaning embodied by the martyrs across generations.

Our martyrs are torches of light and guidance on the path to liberating the homeland from tyranny, corruption, and dependency. Therefore, their day is a glorious day among this occupied and usurped nation’s days, and commemorating it is an essential part of the national struggle and the popular movement for justice and sovereignty.

Through steadfast efforts and sacrifices, Martyrs’ Day has become a central symbol in confronting the Khalifi project of tyranny and extermination—especially after they institutionalized counter-programs to hijack this commemoration, as part of their established strategy of distortion and falsification aimed at erasing all cases and stolen rights.

On this occasion, we highlight the following points in the weekly position:

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The insistence on widely commemorating Martyrs’ Day is a direct message to all concerned: the people of Bahrain cannot dissolve or vanish within the Khalifi tribe, nor under the weight of terrorism and enslavement. It also affirms that their attachment to commemorating the martyrs is practical evidence that steadfastness is not merely slogans or moral speeches, but a living practice on the ground through which they resist the Khalifi occupation and its settler-colonial project—drawing strength from clinging to their values and authentic identity, and turning their culture, history, and symbols into an essential component in resisting oppression and extermination.

The people of Bahrain will not become the tribes of Native Americans; the savage boots will not crush them. They will remain steadfast on this land despite more than two centuries of destruction.

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The remembrance of the martyrs is linked to fundamental themes that represent the essence of commemorating them—and the reason it has become a focal point of confrontation between the people and the Khalifis.

The first theme concerns the goals for which the martyrs sacrificed, centered on establishing a just constitutional system that preserves the dignity of all citizens without discrimination, and protects sovereignty and independence.

The second theme concerns the Khalifis and their criminal mercenaries who took lives and mutilated bodies.

The third theme concerns the legitimate, human, and legal right of the martyrs and their families as rightful heirs of their blood.

From these themes emerge the three torches of the martyrs:

A. The movement will not stop until its legitimate goals are achieved.

B. There is no dialogue with the murderers from the Khalifi family.

C. The unwavering right to fair retribution from the Khalifis and their mercenaries, as well as compensation and moral and material redress.

We affirm without hesitation that the tyrant Hamad is the heir to his tribe’s legacy of darkness and killing. He has added new vices and atrocities to the record of his occupying forefathers—exceeding them in danger and criminality. Therefore, we regard this tyrant as the primary accused in all crimes and the chain of soul-destruction since their occupation of Bahrain until today.

The tyrant is fully aware of this conviction held by our people; he heard it clearly during the funeral of last month’s martyr from Shahrakan, with the chant: “May your hands be paralyzed, O Hamad.” For this reason, he has planned—since 2002—to erase the commemoration of Martyrs’ Day and disrupt it, culminating in his declaration of “Martyr’s Day” to coincide with the same date, exposing the peak of hostility and confrontation between him and our dear people. At the same time, he cemented the equation of struggle between the front of truth and the front of falsehood—and these two can never meet.

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Martyrs’ Day was inaugurated in the midst of the Dignity Uprising of the 1990s (1994), with the fall of its first martyrs on December 17—Hani Khamees and Hani Al-Wosti. One of the noble lessons is that our people commemorate the anniversary of the 1990s uprising and Martyrs’ Day alongside marking the passing of a towering national figure, the mujahid scholar Sheikh Abdul Amir Al-Jamri (may God sanctify his soul), who led the uprising with courage and wisdom, remained loyal and compassionate to the martyrs’ blood, and acted as a kind father to their children and bereaved families.

By the will of Almighty God, Sheikh Al-Jamri passed away during this same atmosphere on December 18, 2006, joining the procession of great martyrs, so that his sorrowful departure would accompany those torches and stand as a radiant beam for their messages of justice, resistance, and retribution.

Our people will commemorate their righteous martyrs surrounded by the grand legacy of the departed Sheikh of Dignity—his immortal words and deeds—inspired by lessons of giving, sacrifice, and refusing to surrender in the face of oppression and terror.

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Political Council – February 14 Youth Revolution Coalition

Monday, December 8, 2025

Occupied Bahrain