http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/12/egypt-extends-state-of-emergency_n_3914693.html?utm_hp_ref=world Egypt Extends State Of Emergency Laws As Security Forces Expand Military Crackdown In early 2011. hundreds of thousands of Egyptians were fighting running battles with police and Hosni Mubarak supporters on the streets of Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said and a hundred other towns across Egypt. Their objectives were to overthrow Mubarak and the military junta in the guise of SCAF with Field Marshall Tantawi in control, and open Egypt to a democratic future. On February 11th 2011, Mubarak stepped down from the Presidency, thus ending more than 50 years of military dictatorship, from Nasser though Sadat. Cairo's Tahrir Square was filled with more than a million jubilant demonstrators celebrating their victory over the forces of oppression and looking forward to free elections for a new President and a new order in Egyptian society. What the vast majority...
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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 ...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/14/egypt-protests-aid-military?commentpage=5 Pressure on US to suspend aid to military Only the hypocrites in Washington can "lead a chorus of international concern" about the massacre of protesters by the military, and yet at the same time refuse to recognise the events of July 3rd as a military coup and again at the same time continue to pour $ billions of military hardware and aid into the pockets of the military junta. Washington has a very bizarre set of morals and values when it comes to "close friends" in the Middle East.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/cairo-massacre-scores-killed-and-hundreds-more-injured-as-egyptian-government-declares-war-on--islamists-8760379.html Egypt Declares National Emergency After Scores Killed In Bloody Clashes State of emergency with martial law and curfew return to Egypt. The people who filled Tahrir Square two years ago calling for democracy and the removal of Mubarak, and in July filled the square calling for the removal of Morsi, must now realise that the military never really went away and that the "generals" had no intention of supporting or allowing a democratic Egypt. The shadow of Mubarak as the puppet front man has been replaced by the shadow of Mansour and in place of SCAF, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and the junta are again in charge of the country. Any dream or aspirations that people may have had for democracy in Egypt were shaken on the 8th July near the Republican Guard compound with t...