Egypt’s presumptive new president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has promised his regime won’t engage in punitive action against its rivals, but that promise may be merely academic given the rate at which the junta is ordering mass trials and mass executions.
The first round of executions, ordered Monday, covered 529 pro-Morsi protesters, ordered killed as “terrorists” because a protest led to the death of a single junta police officer.
The international community barely had time to express outrage at that before the same judge was given another mass trial of supporters of the ousted election government, this time 683 more facing execution on similar pretexts.
Not stopping there, the junta’s chief prosecutor announced two new mass trials of “suspected Islamists,” one covering 715 people accused of involvement in rallies against government buildings in August, and another of 204 detainees accused of “inciting violence” by opposing the summer coup.
All told, that brings the number on trial or already sentenced to death to 2,131. Many of them are already in detention by the military, though a large number from today’s new trials haven’t even been arrested yet, and the mass trial order is to either try them in absentia or capture them sometime before the trial begins.
529 pro-Morsi protesters, ordered killed as “terrorists” because a protest led to the death of a single junta police officer.
Funny. If USrael liked them, they'd be called 'protestors'–even with much more blood on their hands.
How do we know their protest had anything to do with his death? We've been 'surprised' at whose snipers were firing in other places, after all.
The new regime is NWO. Expect cleansings from them, its their history.
Israel approves of the new Gaza crushing Egyptian government so US leaders won't do anything more than "strenuously object" even if all 2,100 are beheaded in Tahrir Square.
They could have 'Lurch' Kerry in a hood operating the guillotine whilst Vicky Nuland sits and counts the heads, muttering 'C'est la Deeeeee..mocracy.' Of course she won't have enough skill to knit, so maybe not.
Egypt's new policy, you ether with us or you're dead and
That goes for Syrians too, it's like this, a king and his salves.
So much for the "Arab spring".