By Jaime Ortega.
Touched yes, sunken no. Yesterday, the bloodiest in El Cairo since August security forces brutally evicted Islamists camping and showed that Radical Islamists can challenge even the police and army in the streets across the country. Its members, that were demobilized in recent weeks have recovered from the blow and have shaken off the fear.
Neither the state propaganda, repeated by the current street battles on state television and private channels or the wide campaign of arrests has successfully managed to silence the cry of those who denounce the coup to demand the return of Mohamed Mursi, held missing since July. The authorities are using force and advancing at any costs, as the absence of any political negotiation hint to condemn Egypt to a prolonged instability.
Four decades later on Sunday, Egypt celebrated the ‘ victory ‘ in the Arab-Israeli war of 1973 between tight security and dotted rival protests. The enemy is already out. The Muslim Brotherhood and its allies , demonized by the new regime protested the streets across the country against the coup that overthrew Mohamed Mursi as the symbolic leader of Tahrir Square in Cairo who reinforced by army and police has surrendered to the military and its leader Abdelfatah to Sisi.
The clashes between Islamists and security forces left at least 51 dead and 268 injured across the country, according to the Ministry of Health. The Muslim Brotherhood have reported that Mursi supporters have been killed in central Cairo’s Ramsis street, in the capital district and Delga Doki, about 300 kilometers south of Cairo. In addition, Egyptian security forces have arrested 423 people in Cairo.
Delga, located in the province of Minia, was under control of Islamists from the brutal eviction of the camps on August 14 until three weeks ago, when the security forces launched an offensive to regain it. The four protesters were killed when the Islamist march approached and chanted Mursi and threw stones at the police, who responded by opening fire.
The Arab country celebrates the anniversary which paved the way to regain the Sinai in alertness. Authorities have tightened security after five islamist protesters on Friday were killed in several clashes with the police. Both sides, bearded and related to the military leadership , have been cited in Tahrir which has sparked fears of a new bloody day .
The president warned yesterday that anyone who protests against the military during this Sunday will be considered a foreign agent. “Not worthy convert authorities cons battle in a conflict against the nation ,” said presidential spokesman Ahmed al Muslimani told the state news agency Mena . The Interior Ministry , meanwhile , said that preclude “any act outside the law or attempt to interfere with services , roads and avenues by those who instigate chaos.”
Tribute to heroes
The burning of cars and public streets roams the television programming on the outskirts of Tahrir, the same perimeter that in 2011 defeated Hosni Mubarak.
The first thing in the morning was the F- 16 of the Egyptian army crossed the sky of the capital. Last night in a televised speech , interim president Adli Mansur urged to participate in the festivities. ” Celebrate the victory against ( Israel 1973 ) and support the army in any neighborhood, street and square in Egypt ,” she insisted .
The Brotherhood , however , does not shrink threats and challenges . On Friday his acolytes staged a show of force with more mass protests since the eviction of camps in Cairo, that left more than 600 dead. And this Sunday, thousands have taken mass manifestation to the streets in several neighborhoods of Cairo , Alexandria and the Nile Delta cities and the south.
The alliance brings together all the Islamists which has called demonstrations to convert ” a tribute to the national heroes and patriotic Army ” against the current military leadership responsible for the coup that unseated Mursi last July 3. ” Authentic leaders are those who fulfill their responsibility in difficult circumstances and point their guns at the real enemy, on the borders of the country ,” the bloc said in a statement .
