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The junta is responsible.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/18/us-britain-israel-plotting-egypt?guni=Keyword:news-grid%20main-1%20Main%20trailblock:Editable%20trailblock%20-%20news:Position1:sublinks From state-controlled newspapers and private pro-government TV channels the message is that Egypt is facing a foreign "conspiracy" to undermine its stability.   It is ironic, and predictable, that a junta controlled press and media will attempt to divert attention from reality.The bloodstained coup leaders in Egypt, together with their puppet politicians, would like the world to believe that they are the victims of some conspiracy in the west to "undermine the stability of Egypt". The indisputable fact, is that on July 3rd a military coup, led by Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, overthrew the democratically elected President Morsi, replaced him with the Mubarak clone Adly Mansour, and embarked upon a killing spree on the streets of Cairo and a dozen other cities across Egypt in a thi...

Ashraf El-Kholy should be declared as "person non grata"

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/08/15/security-forces-had-to-respond_n_3763096.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Ashraf El-Kholy claimed that the large death toll was partly due to protesters killing each other. Egyptian ambassador to the UK, Ashraf El-Kholy   The Egyptian ambassador to the UK, Ashraf El-Kholy, debases the very principle of diplomacy between nations. It is one thing for an Ambassador to present their country and events there in the best possible light, but quite another to blatantly distort truth and to defend the actions of a military dictatorship with hypocrisy and lies. The evidence and reportage of what happened in Cairo and other towns throughout Egypt yesterday, was displayed on television screens and in first hand reports around the world. It would be impossible for the media, except perhaps State television in Egypt, to ignore or minimise the events in Nasr City and the indiscriminate killing of what is now believed to be more than 700 men women ...