Very true. And often it is the minority groups, which suffer the most.When the society is in the chaos, any kind of vandalism will rise - everyone may attack against everyone - even if it wouldn´t change or help the whole situation or situation of some individuals or some group at all.
imsad
Egypt massacre eyewitness account
Azhar Vadi | Cii News, Pics: Scott Nelson – Al Jazeera | 15 August 2013
The numbers game starts a few moments after the first shots of an approaching massacre are fired. The protagonists, most often being government security services and those opposed to the government, hardly ever agree on the figures and quite often the truth appears somewhere in the middle.
In the case of Egypt, the last official figure quoted at 568 and some opposition claims of up to 10 000 casualties makes for grim reading even based on the median average calculation.
In the end it boils down to who you want to believe. The military propped, unelected Egyptian coup leaders or supporters of a legitimate government brought to power by a popular vote.
Perhaps, in the case of Wednesday’s vicious crackdown on peaceful protestors, you would opt for an eyewitness’s account, a narration from one who was actually there.
Professor Nidal Sakr, current chairperson at The March for Justice, a former Assistant General at the International Islamic Council for Da’wa and Relief and a member on the Advisory Board at the United States Commission on Civil Rights, was at the Rabaa sit-in in Cairo yesterday when all hell broke loose. He is also a regular analyst on Cii.
“At around 6am on the 14 August 2013, the administrators of the sit-in advised us not to leave until noon amid reports of an imminent crackdown,” he said. “Immediately thereafter we heard gunfire and teargas being fired. At the Rabaa sit-in there were many children and families.”
The protest until yesterday morning, in support of deposed president Muhammad Morsi, had taken on a carnival atmosphere over the last six weeks since his ousting. Eid celebrations were enjoyed there just last week. The leaders of the new interim government claim that negotiations had failed and a difficult decision was taken to remove the protestors.
“We tried as much as possible to evacuate the causalities after they were hit,” said Sakr. “We had casualties being transported at the rate of 20 cases per minute coming in, half of them dead with injuries to the head, neck and upper chest. Chaos erupted immediately. There was no warning. They just came in shooting.”
Numerous testimonies have borne witness to the use of high velocity bullets and not just bird shot as claimed by the security forces.
Professor Sakr narrated further: “Shortly afterwards sniper shots were fired at the Square from all directions and from three levels: from street level, from rooftops and from helicopters – one was military and one was police. For twelve continuous hours we just sat there in Rabaa Square and watched people all around being shot in the head with blood spilling out of them.
“The field hospitals got jammed from the first few minutes. It was announced by the hospital that more than 2200 people were killed. In my opinion it was much more. Eventually they started stacking the bodies up outside and in the Masjid and other areas. The police then set the field hospital on fire and bodies inside were charred and burnt. We also found entire families wiped out while being burnt in their tents.”
The Professor rubbished the claim that only bird shot was used to disperse the large crowds. “This was a specific kind of ammunition. It went right through the bodies. When it goes in, it comes out on the other side.”
The protestors yesterday were caught by surprise at the speed and ferocity of the crackdown on their peaceful demonstrations. “Killing for the sake of killing,” described Sakr. “It was driven by hate. We found that many of the soldiers and police officers had tattoos on their hands like the Christian Copts who have a cross on their right hand.”
Ambulances were also barred from entering the scene of the massacre on. Private cars and motorcycles that transported injured person were also fired upon and occupants of some of these vehicles were also amongst the dead, said Sakr. “We had medics who were targeted. Anybody who tried to attend to the women and children injured in the initial attack was also shot at.”
The world can make up its own mind on the numbers game. The truth may never be known but from the descriptions of this eyewitness, it’s easy to understand that the coup leader’s account may conveniently be much lower.
http://www.ciibroadcasting.com/2013/08/15/egypt-massacre-eyewitness-account/
On a more depressing note 52 churches have been badly attacked in Egypt in the last 24 hours. These are worrying times!
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/4...orters-attack-coptic-churches-sohag-menya.htm
http://www.themuslimtimes.org/2013/08/africa/massive-church-destruction-in-egypt
To those who might claim that these are Christians torching their own places of worship to 'blame Muslims', I must say that I find that idea ridiculous. Who would destroy their place of worship, where they serve and worship God and meet with their fellow believers? That's simply implausible!
Whatever else this coup is, it is most definitely an attack on democracy. In fact it is hard to see how democracy can be attempted here again for many, many years to come. Why is democracy being blamed for an attack on democracy? Bizarre.Maybe this is the anti-Mursi protester's idea of a democracy.
Another certain victim of this chaos is the Coptic community. The notion that the Copts themselves are the ones who are burning churches and shooting their own 10 year old daughters in the head is as absurd as anything the Israelis have ever claimed about the Palestinians 'faking' incidents. The people carrying out these attacks must be Muslims, because there simply isn't anyone else around who could be doing it.The fact is, that nobody knows who is attacking the churches, but whoever it is, should stop attacking churches, mosques, and the Egyptian populace at large
I endorsed to what stated above
Report after Arab Spring in 2012
http://www.thenational.ae/news/worl...ally-together-in-egypt-after-sectarian-deaths
One year later
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/spe...gather-at-Tahrir-Square-for-Ramadan-meal.html
That is so encouraging!I endorsed to what stated above
Report after Arab Spring in 2012
http://www.thenational.ae/news/worl...ally-together-in-egypt-after-sectarian-deaths
One year later
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/spe...gather-at-Tahrir-Square-for-Ramadan-meal.html
جوري;1593868 said:I advise you to forgo alarbiya or as we call it al3brya (the Hebrew) it is the zionist mouth piece in the Muslim world and caters to the hypocrites amongst arabs but it is up to you
What you are doing is to justify the total elimination of all non Muslims in the ME (which has been happening progressively for the last 100 years).عابر سبيل;1593871 said:Kuffar minorities in our countries have been trouble from day one.
Egypt was once as solidly Christian as it is now mostly Muslim. Many Copts converted to Islam over the centuries, but a significant community still remains. Not for much longer, from the looks of things.جوري;1593872 said:copt means egyptian they use that term to showcase they are the true egyptians while the Muslims are invaders even though they're the remnants of the Romans who were spared after the conquest of Egypt, the people of Egypt embraced Islam almost in totality!
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