Repeated threats by Egypt’s military junta to “crush” the protesters calling for the return of the civilian government finally became a grim reality this morning, as police surrounded the camps in Cairo and elsewhere and opened fire on the sit-in demonstrators in a slaughter the scope of which is still yet to be realized.
The official toll from the junta’s own Health Ministry puts the tentative toll at 638 killed and over 3,750 wounded. The Health Ministry had previously put the toll at only 281, and the Interior Ministry was claiming less than 100.
The “official” tolls are likely to remain low of the final total for awhile in this case because a lot of the casualties haven’t been able to reach real hospitals in all the chaos, and doctors have turned local mosques around the area into makeshift hospitals.
The massacres sparked violent retaliation from the demonstrators, and dozens of police were reported slain, though the vast majority of the killed and virtually all of the wounded were innocent civilians. Two journalists were also reported killed, shot dead by police while covering the protests.
For the past several weeks, the Egyptian protesters had focused on demanding the return of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, who was removed by the military in July. After today’s massacre, the focus is likely to center around removing the junta leadership and everyone else involved in the killings.
Washington, stop giving these killers billions of OUR dollars!!!!!!!!!!
which is mostly in the form of weapons and other military matériel – which they seem content to use against their own people.
good point. that's also important to know.
It is rather tragic a significant number of the 200+ were police are portrayed as all being subject to police action. What police simply shot themselves in a mass suicide:?
Lets get this in perspective.
Morsi supporters deliberately and violently kill Egypt's police in carrying out their assigned task of securing Egypt's streets, Egypt's police respond by killing Morsi supporters in the process of defending themselves.
Eh?
Hey shitface, does it strike you as odd those police started to die AFTER they went after the peaceful protesters? Did you ever hear about self defense or you are one American and Israeli firster who think it is illegal for people to defend themselves like Palestinians?
People like you should be ashamed of themselves and they should stop breathing our oxygen.
Gee, I hate to spoil your propaganda burst, but the article says 4 police were killed.
And considering the 500+ number of total dead is the government lie about how many they killed, and that the real number seems to be in the thousands, that's a small number easily seen as either self-defense or the military and police killing some fellow officers who had switched sides to join the people. There could also easily be police and military officers executing officers who wouldn't follow orders in order to make sure the rest of the police did open fire.
This is a seen where people opened up on largerly peaceful protestors with live ammo, machine guns and flamethrowers. Its absolutely disgusting that there are sick human beings who try to defend this.
Western "democracy" is a curse.
Muslim brotherhoods been given all the opportunities to participate forming a new government, they refused, they had the power to com clean and have a policy of friendship and peace creating gestures with Iranian and the Syrian people, instead they wanted to invade Syria, then they wanted to create the shari'ah law, as the Turkish government want, Egyptian and the Turkish people, nor any others will and wont accept such politics. We have seen it in Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Morocco and elsewhere.
For Muslim brotherhood is to admit to their political mistakes, reevaluate their politics and start building a society where the principals of such system needs to be based on a functioning democracy for the Egyptian people, not how many billions they get from Saudis or UAE, or who gives them what. Otherwise the another domestic religious war, as in Syria and Iraq is next for Egyptian people.
Sounds like Fox News version of events dude. http://youtu.be/QcvjoWOwnn4
Of course, in the mind of people like this, the 'political mistake' was thinking that they could actually be free and democratic. And they didn't correctly understand that if they didn't do exactly what the US Gov said that they'd be murdered by the thousands in the streets.
And if is of course bizarre to say that the overthrow of a legally elected government and the murder of thousands of its supporters in the streets can be cured by a system "based on a functioning democracy". Although, I suspect the keyword there is functioning, which of course means do exactly what the bankers and generals tell you do to or else they'll gun down thousands in the streets.
Don't forget, the DHS in the US has ordered stockpiles of millions of bullets in case the Americans ever want anything other than the democracy that functions for the bankers and generals.
USG and the egyptian mil proxies will now be permanent pariahs. This genocide only strengthens the rebuking hand of the brotherhood and against those seeking sectarian harmony
The next time the majority in Egypt gets a chance to seize power, you can now be certain that it won't be peaceful and it won't be democratic. I'd rather imagine they just learned the same lesson that Castro and Che learned in Guatemala in the 50's.
Our US tax dollars at work. I wonder if they put up a sign as on a highway project.
As Joe Strummer wrote decades ago …. those Washington bullets are killing again.
Don't forget, the Egyptian military has been funded and trained by the US military ever since Sadat, and that there are constant 'military-to-military' contacts. I'm sure some future version of Wikileaks will someday release the emails and memos that show that the US military knew in advance of this and gave its approval.
I'm also sure there are resupply flights on the way right now to refill the stockpiles of those Washington bullets so they can kill again.
And to those who only care about "our tax dollars" you should know that those $$ are being paid to protect a certain shit**y country in the region. Thats all within the master plan. If you care about "our $$$" then ask to stop helping that shitty country and then you might actually make some $$ doing business normally there.
ElBaradei is big snake. He's been working for the CIA for so many years. He was behind the slaughter and blood bath of more than one million Iraqis. Now this despicable thug resigned after he put the poison to scape the blame of killing hundreds of innocent Egyptian. Their fault is their call the return of Dr. Morsi their legally elected leader who was over thrown with the green light from the white house. No wonder when Muslims elect their leader it doesn't fit with the western point of view for their fake democracy. Therefore, there's no place for Muslims in the democratic world. ElBaradei, prime minister Biblawi and general Al-Sissi should be tried for treason and hanged accordingly.
What? I don't know for whom you are shilling but El Baradei didn't even get to have any decision power. And whithout him, the US might quite well be having "boots on the ground" in Iran.
To all of you STREET intellectuals, what the hell do you want from Egyptian people, to play dead because you REVISED intellectuals in USA or EU say so? The idea in islamization of middle east was initiated by Barack Hussein Obama, Hillary Clinton and EU governments to stop the social and political influence of the Iranian Islamic government in Middle East and for that they started the Syrian proxy war, now the entire matter has developed to a religious war all over the Middle East. If you don't understand the meaning of the word "functioning democracy" and its social principals or impact is because you have no idea and refusing to understand the concepts of democracy, a true functioning one, one which is not about supremacy of a religious, one that recognize its true enemy, one that refuses to be a puppet to Saudis, a non militarism system that is after wars with nations as Syria or Iran for the reasons, among other, that Syrian government is NOT sunny Muslim or the Iranian are shi'as, that's when Muhammad Morsi started making its life political mistakes. Look: Barack Hussein Obama foreign policies is a manipulated one, flip flapping day by day and hours by minute to benefit the Saudis one day and to support the Israeli apartheid regime the other day and playing with Iranian the third day. For such politics and before him the Bush Neo Fascism idea in militarizing the entire Middle East, the people of Egypt and elsewhere announced loudly "take your dirty hand of of our country" now they are saying " take your bloody and Angelo saxonism hands of of our country."
You want to be pissed for that, so be it, which indicates the fact that you still don't understand and refusing to understand the basics in democracy and your "philosophy" is based on anarchism and its social functionality, looking for a "religious" miracle to help you out instead of a functioning democracy for the people and by the people against the empire or what is left of his regime. Get it to your empty brain, head, empire is dead, what is left of his regime is his militarism. If you think that he watches you to "protect" you, think again, he watches your move, wants to know what you are up to and he gives you the reason for "terrorists" are coming, while his creating them, if only Muslims brotherhood could understand it.
The people had a hard economic time before. Now it will be much worse http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-08-15/t…
Furthermore Egypt could end up with civil war.
The real backer for authoritarian regime is Saudi who has promised 13 Billion to military over next year.
Hey let's give them 3 billion in aid/handout, right McCain, Graham, Obama, Reid, Pelosi.
I liked Egypt better when they floated around on reed rafts with cats, and drank home made brew.