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'War
zone': Scores killed in Egypt violence, month long state of emergency
proclaimed
8 hrs of mass killings & not single sane person in Egypt or in world 2 stop this !! Over 2000 killed & over 10,000 injured & world watches
Photo shows snipers firing rom an Intelligence Agency building at
They've got every road blocked off and are firing at anyone trying to get in: tear gas, birdshot bullets and what sounds like live ammo
Army soldiers wearing gas masks backed by APCs and police blocking entrance to Rabaa at Nasr Rd & Abbas Akkad
EI Reporters: "Dr: Dozens of injured patients are being brought on such bloody trucks"
Photo of dead after attack by military junta on pro-legitimacy sit-in at Rabaa Adawya in
Coverage from Democracy Now!
A
state of emergency was declared on Wednesday after Egyptian security
forces violently broke up sit-in camps of Muslim Brotherhood
supporters in Cairo. Officials say at least 278 have been killed
nationwide.
There
are conflicting casualty reports. According to the Health Ministry,
at least 278 people including 43 policemen have been killed and 2,001
injured in Wednesday’s violence nationwide.
"The
dead are both from police and civilians," said the ministry's
spokesman, Hamdi Abdel Karim.
However,
Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad claimed that as many as
2,000 people had been killed and 10,000 injured in the police
operation.
8 hrs of mass killings & not single sane person in Egypt or in world 2 stop this !! Over 2000 killed & over 10,000 injured & world watches
Both
major protest camps in Cairo were taken control of by police, with
the second one being seized about an hour after a curfew was
announced.
The
7:00 pm-to-6:00 am curfew was imposed in major cities including
Cairo, Alexandria and Suez. It will last for the next month, or until
further notice.
Following
the violence, a month-long state of emergency was announced in the
country, with the Armed Forces authorized to support the Interior
Ministry in imposing it.
Photo shows snipers firing rom an Intelligence Agency building at
On
Wednesday morning, Egyptian police sent in armored bulldozers to
break up the protest outside Rabaa al-Adawiya in eastern Cairo, where
one of the Muslim Brotherhood camps is located. Police also broke up
a second protest site outside the Cairo University campus in Giza in
the city's west.
Helicopters
were circling over the protest sites, using loudspeakers to call on
the demonstrators to leave. Security troops used tear gas against
protesters, and there were also reports of intensive gunfire in the
area.
Protesters
are also accusing the military of ordering snipers to shoot at them
from the rooftops of buildings surrounding the sit-in camps.
“It
is nasty inside, they are destroying our tents. We can't breathe
inside and many people are in hospital,” protester Murad Ahmed
described the camp crackdown.
Police
and military forces had previously cordoned off the camps with barbed
wire, leaving corridors for protesters to leave.
They've got every road blocked off and are firing at anyone trying to get in: tear gas, birdshot bullets and what sounds like live ammo
Reuters
cited an eyewitness as saying that army soldiers shot pro-Morsi
activists in the legs as they were trying to join the Rabaa protest
camp. Some of the supporters of the ousted president threw stones and
petrol bombs at the troops, the news agency said.
Egypt’s
Interior Ministry said in a statement that Morsi supporters who
attempted to remain in the protest camps would face prosecution.
Police
cleared the smaller camp in Giza in about two hours.
Army soldiers wearing gas masks backed by APCs and police blocking entrance to Rabaa at Nasr Rd & Abbas Akkad
Egyptian
state media said at least 200 people were arrested during the
security forces’ breakup of the sit-in camps. Police said
protesters had weapons, including automatic firearms, ammunition and
gas cylinders.
The
Egyptian government called on the Muslim Brotherhood to “listen to
the voice of reason” and halt violence, saying it holds the
movement’s leaders responsible for the bloodshed during the
dispersal of protest camps Wednesday.
"The
government holds these leaders fully responsible for any spilt blood,
and for all the rioting and violence going on," the government
said in a statement.
Mohammed
el-Beltagy, a senior Muslim Brotherhood leader, called on the police
and army troops to mutiny against their commanders and for Egyptians
to take to the streets in protest against military rule.
“Oh,
Egyptian people, your brothers are in the square... Are you going to
remain silent until the genocide is completed?” AP quoted him as
saying. El-Beltagy is wanted by authorities to answer allegations of
inciting violence.
Hours
later El-Beltagy was arrested along with a number of other Muslim
Brotherhood leaders, Reuters reported, citing a security source.
Egypt’s
Interior Ministry said it intercepted phone calls from Muslim
Brotherhood leaders instructing their supporters to attack police
stations. The planned assaults have been foiled, the ministry said.
EI Reporters: "Dr: Dozens of injured patients are being brought on such bloody trucks"
As
the crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood continued in Cairo,
supporters of the movement took to the streets elsewhere in the
country. Pro-Morsi demonstrations were reported in the cities of
Alexandria, Aswan, Beni Suef, Kafr El-Zayat, Minya and Asyut.
In
Minya, about 1,000 pro-Morsi protesters set fire to a church before
being dispersed with tear gas, security sources reported.
The
European Union on Wednesday called on Egypt’s military government
to exercise restraint in dealing with the protesters, saying that the
incoming reports of numerous deaths were “extremely worrying.”
Supporters
of President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood government,
which came to power in elections after the 2011 Egyptian revolution,
are demanding his reinstatement.
The
Egyptian military seized power in a coup last month after massive
popular protests against Morsi’s government, as the country slid
into anarchy and economic chaos.
At
least 250 people have died in clashes in the weeks following the
military coup.
Photo of dead after attack by military junta on pro-legitimacy sit-in at Rabaa Adawya in
Egyptian riot police disperse supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood as security forces crackdown on two major pro-Morsi protest camps, on August 14, 2013 near Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque (AFP Photo / Khaled Desouki) Egyptian riot police disperse supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood as security forces crackdown on two major pro-Morsi protest camps, on August 14, 2013 near Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque (AFP Photo / Khaled Desouki)
Supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood run from tear gas smoke shot by police to disperse a pro-Morsi camp, on August 14, 2013 in Cairo (AFP Photo / Khaled Desouki) Supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood run from tear gas smoke shot by police to disperse a pro-Morsi camp, on August 14, 2013 in Cairo (AFP Photo / Khaled Desouki)
Egyptian military vehicles block a road leading to the Rabaa al-Adawiya protest camp in Cairo as Egyptian police try to disperse supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi on August 14, 2013 (AFP Photo / Khaled Desouki) Egyptian military vehicles block a road leading to the Rabaa al-Adawiya protest camp in Cairo as Egyptian police try to disperse supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi on August 14, 2013 (AFP Photo / Khaled Desouki)
Egyptian riot police disperse supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood as security forces crackdown on two major pro-Morsi protest camps, on August 14, 2013 near Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque (AFP Photo / Khaled Desouki) Egyptian riot police disperse supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood as security forces crackdown on two major pro-Morsi protest camps, on August 14, 2013 near Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque (AFP Photo / Khaled Desouki)
Map of Cairo locating the main protest camps used by pro-Mursi supporters (Reuters)
This Video Clip From Egypt Is Likely Not Produced
Via Zero Hedge
Unlike
the previously 'staged' Muslim Brotherhood demonstrations, we suspect
this 'real' clip of the escalating and deadly situation in Egypt will
open a few eyes to how close the nation is to civil war.
Things
escalate around the 40 second mark...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l7XeYdELNA#action=share
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