I have to wonder why a wide variety of protests warranted absolutely no mention in your Person of the Year: The Protester cover story?
In Bahrain, peaceful protests at the Pearl Roundabout were violently quelled by KSA security forces. Why no look back into what happened there? Here in Sohar, Oman Abdullah bin Ali Al Ghamlasi was murdered by police on February 27, 2011 as he observed and photographed a protest by young unemployed Omanis. His death was ineptly hushed by a political mouthpiece who inaccurately claimed the 29-year old business person was a 19-year old malcontented student. An official inquiry was eventually held at the behest of the bereaved family, but its report has yet to be published.
Your stories in early March reviewing the protests in Oman give the impression that women were not involved. This is not the case. I personally witnessed women camped out at the Globe Roundabout. Women protesting in Saudi Arabia against the ban on their driving is also not covered in your wide-ranging cover story.
Also not mentioned was the Bersih 2.0 movement in Malaysia and its rally for clean elections on July 9th in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. How could this milestone in peaceful protests in South East Asia fail to make the grade for this cover story? I have a personal fish to fry in that pan, my wife is Malaysian and my best friend and his wife were tear-gassed on that day.
Rob Clément, SOHAR, SULTANATE OF OMAN