(Lulu refers to the 2011 uprising named after the Pearl or Lulu Roundabout, where public demonstrations took place.)

Five people have been killed on Wednesday when security forces attacked anti government demonstrators who have been rallying on Pearl (Lulu) Roundabout in the capital Manama.

Two months later, the Arab Spring protests started in Tunisia, spreading to Bahrain in February 2011 with the start of the Pearl uprising.

Image posted by Twitter user khalidalkhalifa. Journalist Hussain Mansoor ( Hu4mansoor) responded to the Foreign Minister's tweet with a reference to the destroyed Pearl Roundabout, focal point of pro democracy protests, saying It is not a Path of Pearls if it doesn't lead to the Pearl Roundabout.

The 2010 2011 State of the World Cities report, published by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, estimates the population of the delta region at 120 million people it is rapidly urbanising.

The GCC Roundabout referred to in the report is what became known as the Pearl Roundabout, the epicentre of the pro democracy demonstrations which started in Bahrain on February 14, 2011.

I got to know the real meaning of this question when I first left jail at the end of February 2011 at three in the morning and went directly to Lulu square where the protesters were freely sleeping in peace.

Given this alignment of forces, and the bloodshed that has already occurred in Manama s Pearl Square, the scenes from Cairo of protesters arm in arm with soldiers and hugging tank crews are unlikely to be replayed here.