Bahraini Shiite mourners carry the coffin of 28-year-old Ahmed Farhan during his funeral in the Shiite town of Sitra, on the outskirts of Manama, on March 18, 2011. Thousands of Bahrainis gathered for the funeral of the demonstrator slain hours after the king declared martial law in response to a month of escalating protests. Shiites account for 70 percent of the tiny island's half-million people but they are widely excluded from high-level posts and positions in the police and military. UPI\Isa Ebrahim
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