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Enhanced version of the video showing police dragging
a dead protester towards a heap of bodies.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 3:29 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | AlexSchindler RT @ianinegypt:
Large number of police advancing towards #tahrir #egypt |
This photo shows a convoy of military vehicles heading for #Tahrir
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| Quote: | Sina_86 RT @Elazul: Non Stop gunfire, people running again,
Cops chasing protestors #Egypt #tahrir #Jan25 #Nov19 |
Looks like a determined effort to tackle the protests is underway this AM.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 3:38 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Joe010Awad RT @MaryShehata: Oh my God .. RIP 
RT @waleedrashed #Egypt #Tahrir
Just died in Tahrir square field hospital now
http://t.co/ekd2KvoV
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| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 4:15 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | jonjensen Jon Jensen
Protesters make a huge push from Tahrir up Mohamed Mahmoud.
Police seem baffled by their inability to contain the growing anger.
#Egypt 8 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Egyptian minister of culture Emad Abu Ghazi submits his resignation in protest against the way government "handled" protesters in Tahrir
1 hour ago
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jonjensen Jon Jensen
Police actively targeting apartment rooftops in the Tahrir area with tear
gas. #Egypt
1 hour ago
jonjensen Jon Jensen
Thick black smoke rising from base of an apartment building in Bab al-
Louq not far from Tahrir. |
The fire he mentions likely caused by a tear gas canister.
Protesters earlier helped rescue those in the apartment block.
Authorities are now admitting at least 20 killed in Tahrir Sq over the
weekend. If that's the limited hangout, then the real figure.........
| Quote: | Sara723
If, as #SCAF says, security forces acted with "restraint,"
I'd hate to see what "unrestrained" means...... |
| Quote: | #Tahrir Mohamed Mahmoud street now:
the martyr's street #martyrstreet
pic.twitter.com/ssuCUlyv
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| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 4:39 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Mariam_Slh RT @Linaattalah: Field hospital doctor tells he saw
at least 6 cases of live ammunition in the last few hours #tahrir |
Unconfirmed, but this shows Monday morning's batleground on the Avenue
Mohamed Mahmoud (see pic above) is now full of people - inferring that the
police have been driven back:
Update- Confirmed
| Quote: | Medanyz RT @AminaIsmail: #CSF withdrew from mohamed mahmoud st.
Now ppl r walking in the st. Don't knw where r they heading yet I think
#moi #tahrir |
In fact there is still a standoff skirmish going on at the end of Avenue
Mohamed Mahmoud furthest from Tahrir Sq - as protesters hold the
police back. Protesters had a rooftop presence in the street - which
proved to be the decisive advantage.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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• Thirty-three people are reported killed in the protests,
but there is doubt that all the casualties are accounted for.
• Crowds in Tahrir Square have been growing and clashes are
continuing as night has fallen.
• The Revolutionary Youth Movement has called for a one million
man march in the capital and across the country tomorrow
• Bothaina Kamal, Egypt's only female presidential candidate, has
reportedly told a journalist that she was sexually assaulted when
she was arrested during yesterday's clashes.
• In an effort to retain credibility, civilian political leaders - who have
proved themselves to be largely out of step with the revolutionaries and
the street during the past few days - are being forced to come down to
Tahrir and affirm the right to peaceful protest.
The Guardian's Jack Shenker was in Mohamed Mahmoud street,
off the south-west corner of Tahrir Square. He says numbers on the
streets are growing, as is the intensity of the fighting:
| Quote: | Police are advancing right down Mohammed Mahmoud Street and they are firing volleys of teargas now right into the centre of the square. The sound you can hear around me now is people choking, people spitting and some throwing up, and now the beating of drums and the road signs as people rally the protesters together to to push back against the police.
There are motorbikes roaring. There are motorbikes ferrying the wounded to makeshift field hospitals. On this side of the square there are two. There is one inside a mosque and one inside a church and they [the motorbikes] keep on roaring past with very lifeless-looking figures on them, who have inhaled a lot of gas or [who have been] hurt by flesh wounds. |
| Quote: | [Mohamed Mahmoud] is a scene of complete devastation on the ground; there's rubble everywhere, debris, many, many injured and bloody people propped up against the shuttered shops on the side of the road, charred vehicle remains and improvised metal barricades scattered across the street.
There's a good thousand or so [people] in this street and several thousand more in the square. Tahrir Square itself is quite peaceful. Down Mohamed Mahmoud though, probably 50-75m ahead of me is the frontline of the police. They periodically send a volley of tear gas towards us and over the top of our heads, and then also fire these birdshot pellet cartidges, often aimed at head height. They seem to have a tactic of not firing for several minutes, allowing the protesters to creep forward and then sending a huge burst of tear gas over the top which scatters the crowds and allows them to pick people off easier.
The wounded are being carried to makeshift a field hospitals in Tahrir, reports Shenker. He sees two men, one bleeding from his head and one showing no sign of life.
At around two minutes into the first dispatch, Shenker says he is being pushed back about 20 or 30 metres by "another huge round of tear gas", which he says "feels very different" from and "a lot stronger" than the gas used earlier in the year. Later, he returns to the Mohamed Mahmoud street where the clouds of tear gas are "incredibly strong".
"I'm going to have to fall back because it's really burning people's skin here and really burning their eyes. There are lots of people around me here who are collapsing and are being carried away from the gas and towards the makeshift hospitals."
Shenker describes seeing "rows and rows" of riot police and protesters hurling molotov cocktails and stones towards them. After the repeated volleys of tear gas, he says, many of the protesters appear to be imbued with a mixture of courage and panic.
To the sound of chants calling for the downfall of military rule, Shenker concludes:
"It's a very very intense scene here. The fighting is ongoing and it's showing no sign of letting up. Certainly the protesters around me- whatever happens at the level of high politics today- are showing no sign whatsoever of backing down. This battle is going to rage long into the day and I'm sure into the night as well." |
• A spokesman for the military authorities has said the victims of the violence were "thugs" rather than peaceful protesters. A SCAF general visited Tahrir Square and insisted the council respected the protesters' right to peaceful protest, the New York Times reported.
• Foreign secretary William Hague has refused to call for Egypt's Scaf authorities to step down now, saying it was important that they oversaw the elections and then transfered power "as quickly as possible" to civilian rule. Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Hague said the violence was "of great concern", but that Britain would not be taking sides.
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Egyptian cabinet resigns
The Egyptian cabinet has tendered its resignation to the country's ruling
military council. There is confusion as to whether the Supreme Council of
Armed Forces has accepted.
The Guardian reports:
| Quote: | The crowds in Tahrir Square – who are calling for the downfall of the
ruling generals, not a simple personnel change amongst the political
leaders operating on their behalf – seem unmoved by the development
and as the evening wears on, numbers are still swelling.
"I don't think this crowd cares at all about the government," said Khalid
Abdalla, an actor and activist who has been demonstrating in Tahrir. "This
is about a battle on the streets in which people are being killed."
The sentiment that this is far too little, far too late, is one shared by most
in the square. If Scaf does believe that Sharaf's dismissal will solve this
rapidly-escalating crisis then it appears to have severely misjudged the
feeling on the street; it appears the only way that a change of government
will calm the unrest is if it is accompanied by the departure of Scaf from
political power. |
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