Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous describes his recent trip to Bahrain, where the Sunni monarchy continues its crackdown on a two-year old uprising. Since February 2011, at least 87 people have died at the hands of US-backed forces. While talks are taking place this week between the Bahraini government and opposition groups, several of Bahrain's leading human rights defenders remain imprisoned. "Bahrain had the feeling of a country under occupation," Kouddous says of his visit. "There was helmeted riot police in full armor, wielding shotguns, tear gas, sound grenades; deployed around villages outside of the helicopters; there were helicopters buzzing overhead conducting surveillance... Many people from the opposition movement lament that they have been forsaken by the international community and forgotten by the world's media for this uprising that doesn't get a lot of attention."