by Anna Mahjar-Barducci
October 21, 2011 at 4:00 am
October 21, 2011 at 4:00 am
The youth in Tahrir Square are maybe only just starting to realize that Mubarak was just one of the pieces of the regime, which did not fall at all, and is not ready to give Egypt free elections.
The Egyptian revolution did not actually change much. Mubarak is not there, but the army still is. Even though, the media celebrated the role of the Egyptian military forces, now the people of the Arab Spring are seeing that the old guard is still governing and has no intention of leaving. The Day of Shame of the Egyptian army reached its peak on October 9, when the army brutally attacked the Coptic community.
The new enemy of the Copts is Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi. Former Minister of Defence under the regime of Hosni Mubarak, and now the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces [SCAF] and the de facto is the head of state of Egypt.
The sequence leading to the recent massacres started when a group of Copts staged a demonstration in the Maspero neighborhood of Cairo to protest the burning of a church in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Aswan. The army soon intervened and attacked the protestors for no reason, killing at least 27 Copts and injuring at least 300. A petition, circulating among U.S. human rights organizations, reports that a military tank even ran over a protester's head, smashing it to pieces. One of the protestors who believed n the January revoltion was Mina Daniel, killed by the army.
The petition reports also states that every year the US government gives $1.3 billion to SCAF, and suggests that U.S. citizens should ask their representatives to stop American aid to an army that is attacking its citizens rather than protecting them. "Under the rule of Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), 12,000 Egyptians were sentenced to military court since last January. During Mubarak's rule, only 500 Egyptians were sentenced by military court. More churches were burned and the perpetrators not sentenced under this military rule." the petition states. "The hated Emergency Law has been renewed, and heavy-handed censorship has brought upon the arrest of journalists and the storming of the offices of independent news media." Read the rest on:
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