Tuesday, March 15, 2011

EGYPT - New clashes in the neighborhood of Cairo

"The sectarian strife is thirteen dead and leave a neighborhood in ruins," as the Egyptian daily (English version). March 9, clashes continued between Copts and Muslims Mokattam district of Cairo. The witnesses in this predominantly Christian suburb, tell that the attack was obviously fundamentalists planned and coordinated, apparently entrusted to habitual criminals.

Molotov cocktails were thrown against houses and warehouses, and shots have sounded. The clashes marked an escalation of sectarian tensions, very lively since a suicide bombing that had killed twenty-one in Alexandria the night of the new year. Also, clashes erupted Tahrir Square in central Cairo, where hundreds of opposition demonstrators were attacked with sticks and knives.

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