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Denton Record-Chronicle
INTERNATIONAL
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
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Clashes in Egypt kill more than 50
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By Maggie Michael
and Sarah El Deeb
Associated Press
CAIRO — Egypt was rocked
Monday by the deadliest day
since its Islamist president was
toppled by the military, with
more than 50 of his supporters
killed by security forces as the
country’s top Muslim cleric
raised the specter of civil war.
The military found itself on
the defensive after the blood-
shed, but the interim president
drove ahead with the army’s po-
litical plan. He issued a swift
timetable for the process of
amending the Islamist-backed
constitution and set parliamen-
tary and presidential elections
for early 2014.
The killings further en-
trenched the battle lines be-
tween supporters and oppo-
nents of ousted President Mo-
hammed Morsi, who was re-
moved by the military July 3
after a year in office following
mass demonstrations by mil-
lions of Egyptians.
Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood
called for an uprising, accusing
troops of gunning down protest-
ers, while the military blamed
armed Islamists for provoking
its forces.
The shootings began during
a protest by about 1,000 Islam-
ists outside the Republican
Guard headquarters where
Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected
leader, was detained last week.
Demonstrators and members of
Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood
said troops descended on them
and opened fire unprovoked as
they finished dawn prayers.
“I was in the last row praying.
They were firing from the left
and right,” said Nashat Mo-
hammed, who had come from
southern Egypt to join the sit-in
and was wounded in the knee.
“We said, ‘Stop, we’re your
brothers.’ They shot at us from
every direction.”
After a battle lasting about
three hours, at least 51 protesters
were killed and 435 wounded,
most from live ammunition and
birdshot, emergency services
chief Mohammed Sultan told to
the state news agency.
At a nationally televised
news conference, Army Col. Ah-
med Mohammed Ali said police
and troops came under “heavy
gunfire” at around 4 a.m. and at-
tackers on rooftops opened fire
with guns and Molotov cock-
tails. A soldier and two police-
men were killed, and 42 in the
security forces were wounded,
eight critically, he said.
While he said troops had a
right to defend the facility, Ali
did not directly explain how the
protester deaths occurred. He
expressed condolences but of-
fered no apologies for the
deaths.
A collection of video of the
clashes provided by the military
to Egyptian TV showed protest-
ers on rooftops lobbing projec-
tiles at troops below, including
firebombs and toilet seats. It also
showed some armed protesters
firing at close range at the
troops, but it did not show what
the military did. It was also not
clear at what time in the fighting
the videos were shot. It included
aerial views of the clashes.
Several witnesses from out-
side the protest said the gunfire
started when troops appeared to
move on the camp.
University student Mima el-
Helbawi told The Associated
Press that she watched from her
14th floor apartment overlook-
ing the scene, after she heard
protesters banging on metal
barricades, a common battle cry.
El-Helbawi, 21, said she saw
troops and police approaching
the protesters, who were lined
up on the street behind a make-
shift wall. The troops fired tear
gas, the protesters responded
with rocks, she said.
Soon after, she heard the first
gunshots and saw the troops ini-
tially retreat backward — which
she said led her to believe the
shots came from the protester
side. She saw Morsi supporters
firing from rooftops, while the
troops were also shooting.
The Freedom and Justice
party, the Muslim Brotherhood’s
political arm, called on Egyp-
tians to rise up against the army,
which it accused of turning
Egypt into “a new Syria.”
“This could be a moment of
extremism for both sides” of the
equation, Mohammed Mah-
soub, a member of the Islamist
Wasat Party told Al-Jazeera TV.
The sole Islamist faction that
backed Morsi’s removal, the ultra-
conservative Al-Nour Party, sus-
pended its participation in talks
on forming a new leadership for
the country. The group is now
tom by pressure from many in its
base, furious over what they saw
as a “massacre” against Islamists.
Reeling from scenes of
bloodied protesters in hospitals
and clinics, many with gaping
wounds, some of Egypt’s politi-
cians tried to push new plans for
some sort of reconciliation in the
deeply polarized nation.
Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb, the
grand imam of Al-Azhar, the
most prominent Sunni Muslim
institution, demanded that a
reconciliation panel with full
powers immediately start work
and that those detained in re-
cent days be released. Five
prominent Brotherhood figures
have been jailed since Morsi’s
fall, and Morsi himself is held in
detention in an unknown loca-
tion.
El-Tayeb’s announcement he
was going into seclusion was a
symbolic but dramatic stance —
a figure seen as a moral compass
by many Egyptians expressing
his disgust with all sides in the
events. Egypt’s Coptic popes
have at times gone into seclusion
to protest acts against the Chris-
tian community, but the sheik of
Al-Azhar has never done so.
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