Sunday, April 10, 2011

Hundreds of Egyptians are entrenched in Tahrir after clashes with the army

Cairo. .- Hundreds of Egyptians continue today in the central Tahrir Square in Cairo in a clear challenge to the Armed Forces, after violent clashes this morning between protesters and the military. In this square, the epicenter of the revolution that ended the regime of Hosni Mubarak, are clear signs of shocks that occurred hours earlier when members of the army tried to disperse after curfew to those gathered there.

All access to the place is closed to traffic with barbed wire and fences, pavement is dotted with dozens of broken paving stones and bullet casings, and the center is a truck and a bus burned, according to Efe could verify. "We will stay here until the revolution demands are met and Mubarak trial.

We do not want it happen again last night," said Husam young Efe Abdelatif, referring to what he defined as an attack against Army peaceful demonstrators. Incidents of this morning are the first serious recorded between protesters and the army, which was well received during the revolution, when they never attacked the protestors.

But the good image of the armed forces appears to have deteriorated since many felt they were not doing enough to end the regime of Mubarak. Furthermore, this increase also affects the confidence of allegations that some protesters have been tortured by the military and others are facing military trials.

"We feel that the Army is not good. He is not doing anything to change the system," Efe said one of those gathered in Tahrir, Mohamed Abdallah. The expression of the eve named "Friday the purge," which was intended to ask the trial of former leaders and other corrupt Mubarak and disclaimer from the old regime, he spent a peaceful until the start of the curfew at 2:00 local time (00:00 GMT).

"Some military wanted to join us at night and other Army officers came to stop them and arrest them," said Abdellatif, which indicated that this was the spark that triggered the clashes in the square and surrounding streets persecution. According to Abdellatif, a member of the Youth Coalition January 25, soldiers attacked the demonstrators and caused three deaths and several injuries.

However, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of Egypt, who runs the country since the resignation of Mubarak, said today that "the Interior Ministry forces and some civilians repelled honest acts of violence and the curfew applied without that casualties were reported. " "There were people who defied the law in Tahrir square after Friday's rally which was attended honest people.

These groups conducted disturbances and did not comply with the curfew," the military leadership in a statement. Military leaders also ordered the arrest of businessman Ibrahim Kamel, one of the remnants of exgobernante National Democratic Party, and three of his associates on charges of "inciting criminal acts in the demonstration yesterday Tahrir." In this sense, Abdelatif reported that the Army would have us believe that those who focus on Tahrir are thugs who have nothing to do with the revolution of 25 January.

Ziad Ahmed also insisted the youth, while teaching several shell casings and assumptions of the injured videos on your mobile, that "the army attacked the demonstrators, who at no time had assaulted them." Versions of what happened are contradictory, but what seems clear is that gathered in Tahrir Square stand there and aim to have installed a tent in the center, as they did during the revolution.

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