At least 120 people have been killed and several thousand others wounded today as Egyptian police attacked another sit-in protest in northeast Cairo. The protesters, who were near a mosque, were opposing this month’s military coup and calling for a return of the civilian government.
The junta Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim confirmed the shootings but dramatically under-reported the death toll, claiming only 21 had been killed, local health officials confirmed the number was much, much higher.
Exact figures are difficult to come by on casualties with the junta overtly lying, but the death toll reports consistently hover around 120 and the wounded has been estimated at 4,500 by the Muslim Brotherhood, which organized the rallies.
Interior Minister Ibrahim praised the shootings and said “God willing” the rest of the protesters would be dealt with in a similar way, citing complaints from residents unhappy with large public protests against military rule.
This is the second massacre of sit-in protesters since the coup, as a July 8 attack on another sit in left 53 people dead and 435 others wounded, according to the junta’s own figures. The junta followed up that massacre by ordering the arrests of the organizers for “incitement” and is now consistently calling public protesters “terrorists.”
Where is the zionist puppet, obama?
The worst on whole thing is that eyes and mouths at the US and the rest of the "civilized" world are shut wide! Sit-ins are as unarmed and peacefull protests as they can be. These people are in reality sloughtered like sheep. Well in driver seats we see the Egypt´s "finest" trained and educated in US.
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Let me see if I understand this. We have to intervene in Syria because President Assad is killing his own people. The Egyptian army deposed a freely elected government and is now killing its own people, so we have to do…nothing.
I know its difficult for many in the west to understand what is taking place right now in Egypt and the Arab world. However, the killing of innocent people is a direct result of the fact that those who oppose the predominant Islamic identity in Egypt and tout western values of secularism, liberalism etc. are buoyed, exploited and manipulated by American/Israeli interests. This outside intervention increases the killing and mayhem that is a result. If the liberal secularists didn't have an army co-opted to protect the illegality of Israel in the region they would have submitted to the results of democracy and the ballot box. As more Egyptians die and experience the price of freedom the stronger will be the backlash against US/Israeli interests and their Egyptian lackeys. Unfortunately as moderate Muslims we are quickly realizing that America only respects (actually can only be humbled by) power. Well let me tell you the MB is gaining strength one death at a time. That is the price you pay for freedom. In America you take it for granted in the Muslim world we are just beginning to achieve it. When that time comes America will have to make other excuses for its failures, belligerence and loss of all prestige in the Middle East.
{In America you take it for granted in the Muslim world we are just beginning to achieve it.}
I don't know where do you live? In America, there is nothing but POLICE STATE, not freedom. Iranians have far more freedom than Americans, but western/zionist propaganda show things differently and out of context to keep the gullible where they are. You should go to Iran to see for yourself that there is no police present in the government building or air port or department store, and things are far more RELAX despite the fact that American war criminals have trained the terrorists to destabillize Iran, like Libya, Pakistan, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, and many other countries. People of the region must be united against FORIEGN INVADERS to wipe them off the map of the region NOW.
Hey cry baby elites in the democratic and republican party where is your outrage????
The Egyptian coup d'etat supporters have learned well from their US masters.
Not only – some were trained by German NGOs /GONGOs: http://wp.me/a7ORt-6g
Protesters are terrorists and the armed military gangs shooting them are protesters.
Blowback to Amerika will be horrific..
this is just one of the ways the west installs de-mock-rat y
There are no good guys here. I guess this is the reality in international politics. Remember Mursi was a puppet of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) and did what their masters in Riyadh told him to to the point of demanding jihad in Syria. The military are no better probably. But this is due to Morsi's incompetence, so he only has himself to blame.
Governments everywhere know only one policy: repression. If that doesn't work, obviously the solution is more repression. The Egyptian military, with the support of the D.C. Dunces, is driving the country to civil war. Mothers are weeping while the "civilized" world… yawns.