Tuesday, January 25, 2011

First Tunisia, now Egypt: North African liberation revolts… :Three dead in Egypt protests : Egypt police fire tear gas as rioting erupts in Cairo


My friend Jessica is Egyptian. She is American born but much of her extended family is still in Egypt. She told me she has been glued to this story, with tears welling in her eyes at the hope of Mubarak’s regime coming to an end. Wars do not destroy nations. Revolts do not change regimes. They are the symptoms of a stronger force: Ideas. It is ideas that have the power that spreads like a virus among the people and tells them the truth: the people deserve a voice.  First Tunisia.  Now Egypt.  And this adds another notch in the belt of social technology… spreading the brainpower of ideas faster and cleaner to the people who eagerly wait. The twitter banner for the movement has become: “Yesterday we were all Tunisian. Today we are all Egyptian. Tomorrow we’ll all be free!”   -  Jedidiah.
From BBC News:
Police in Cairo are using tear gas and water cannon to try to quell rare anti-government protests.
Thousands are reported to have joined the protests after an internet campaign inspired by the uprising in Tunisia.
They are marching through Cairo and other areas chanting anti-government slogans, after activists called for a “day of revolt” in a web message.
Weeks of unrest in Tunisia eventually toppled President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali earlier this month.
Such protests are uncommon in Egypt, which President Hosni Mubarak has ruled since 1981, tolerating little dissent.
The events in Cairo were co-ordinated on a Facebook page – tens of thousands of supporters clicked on the page to say they would take part.
The BBC’s Jon Leyne in Cairo says rallies are being held in several parts of the capital, and the turnout so far is more than the organisers could have hoped.
He says there has been a series of violent confrontations, including in front of the parliament building, where police with riot shields, tear gas and water cannon clashed with protesters throwing rocks.
There are also reports of protests in Alexandria and Ismailiya, among others.
‘Nothing to fear’
The Associated Press (AP) news agency reports that in Tahrir Square, demonstrators attacked a police water cannon vehicle, opening the driver’s door and ordering the man out of the vehicle.
Officers beat back protesters with batons as they tried to break the police cordons to join the main demonstration, it added.
One protester, 43-year-old lawyer Tareq el-Shabasi, told AP: “I came here today willing to die, I have nothing to fear.”
The AFP news agency reported that protesters had gathered outside the Supreme Court holding large signs that read: “Tunisia is the solution.”
They then broke through lines of police and began to march through the streets, chanting: “Down with Mubarak.”
Reuters news agency reported that some chants referred to Mr Mubarak’s son Gamal, who some analysts believe is being groomed as his father’s successor. “Gamal, tell your father Egyptians hate you,” they shouted.
The organisers rallied support saying the protest would focus on torture, poverty, corruption and unemployment, calling it “the beginning of the end”.
“It is the end of silence, acquiescence and submission to what is happening in our country,” they said in comments carried by Reuters news agency.
“It will be the start of a new page in Egypt’s history – one of activism and demanding our rights.”
George Ishaq, an Egyptian opposition leader, said security forces had been “confounded”.
“In the end, we will get our rights because this is just the beginning,” he said.
“This will not end. Our anger will continue over the coming days. We will put forth our conditions and requests until the system responds and leaves.”
Disillusioned
Egypt has many of the same social and political problems that brought about the unrest in Tunisia – rising food prices, high unemployment and anger at official corruption.
However, the population of Egypt has a much lower level of education than Tunisia. Illiteracy is high and internet penetration is low.
There are deep frustrations in Egyptian society, our Cairo correspondent says, yet Egyptians are almost as disillusioned with the opposition as they are with the government; even the Muslim Brotherhood, the banned Islamist movement, seems rudderless.
While one opposition leader, Mohamed ElBaradei, called on Egyptians to take part in these protests, the Muslim Brotherhood has been more ambivalent.
Our correspondent adds that Egypt is widely seen to have lost power, status and prestige in the three decades of President Mubarak’s rule.

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Three dead in Egypt protests 
Two civilians and a police officer have died after a wave of unusually large anti-government demonstrations swept across Egypt, calling for the ouster of longtime president Hosni Mubarak.
In central Cairo, crowds numbering in the thousands protested and clashed with police throughout the day. Shortly after midnight on Wednesday morning, security forces violently dispersed those who remained in Tahrir Square, the heart of the city, Al Jazeera's Adam Makary reported.
Security officers fired tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets to drive the protesters from the square, where they had chosen to remain throughout the night in protest. An Al Jazeera cameraman was shot with rubber bullets several times, including once in the face, Makary said.
Telephone communication with people in central Cairo was nearly impossible, but Makary reported that the crowds, which had been peaceful, had been forced to escape the police, who fired dozens of tear gas canisters.
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