Wednesday, February 2, 2011

The forces unleashed in Egypt can't be turned back

The upheaval spreading across the Arab world is at heart a movement for self-determination. The west resists it at its peril

The fate of the Egyptian uprising is in the balance. There is a revolutionary situation in Egypt, but there has not yet been a revolution. In the wake of Hosni Mubarak's pledge not to stand again for the presidency next September, gangs of government loyalists were today let loose on the streets of Cairo and Alexandria.

First, the army spokesman called for the protesters to stand down now "your message has arrived". Truckloads of thugs, armed with iron bars and machetes, many clearly members of the security forces, were then dispatched to Cairo's Tahrir Square to assault and terrorise the mass of peaceful demonstrators and drive them from the city centre – with reports of killings and hundreds injured.

It's the latest and potentially deadliest of the regime's counterattacks against the tide of popular pressure for change. First there was the withdrawal of police from the streets, orchestrated looting and armed provocations apparently staged to scare people into submission with the threat of chaos and social breakdown.

Read more-The Guardian

2 comments:

  1. Absolutely and to chose wanton violence on peaceful protesters shows the nature of the regime itself and how it was working all along! His days are numbered!

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