In
Egypte is het sinds afgelopen vrijdag behoorlijk onrustig, ondanks dat het geen grote
groepen zijn, wordt er in meerdere steden in Egypte gedemonstreerd en
dat zou voor het eerst zijn sinds al-Sisi na zijn aantreden een groot aantal mensen liet vermoorden en gevangen zette voor demonstreren tegen de coup die hij met hulp van o.a. de CIA pleegde…….. Een coup tegen de
democratisch gekozen president Mohamed Morsi….. Op grond van een fiks
aantal leugens greep het leger in en zette de voormalige president af
en gevangen.
Nadat
Mohamed Ali, een Egyptische acteur en vastgoed ontwikkelaar die in
Spanje verblijft, een aantal video’s op YouTube dropte, video’s
waarin te zien zou zijn dat al-Sisi en z’n maten zo corrupt zijn als de
pest, ging men de straat op o.a. in Caïro. De reden voor het naar buiten komen met video’s die Ali de afgelopen jaren van dichtbij heeft kunnen maken, is het feit dat hij niet betaald werd en wordt…… (m.i. wel een ‘beetje’ hypocriet)
De video’s zijn voor velen blijkbaar de spreekwoordelijke druppel en afgelopen vrijdagavond verzamelden zo’n 200 mensen zich op het Tahrirplein in Caïro, ook in andere grote steden werd gedemonstreerd.
Al weken voorafgaand aan de laatste protesten, gaat de #Tahrirplein rond, dit daar de mensen de bezuinigingen meer
dan zat zijn, terwijl al-Sisi, zijn familie en vrienden zichzelf
verrijken ten koste van de bevolking…… Al-Sisi heeft onder meer een paar paleizen laten bouwen, waarover hij durfde te zeggen dat die werden gebouwd voor het Egyptische volk….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Knettergek deze psychopathisch gewelddadige dief en hufter!!
Ali
heeft zelfs het leger opgeroepen in te grijpen, een nogal vreemde
zaak, daar het leger ook zwaar corrupt is (het leger heeft o.a. zelfs
fabrieken en boerderijen)….. Bovendien was nu juist het leger
verantwoordelijk voor de staatsgreep tegen Morsi, waar gegarandeerd
ook de CIA bij betrokken is geweest, daar de houding van Morsi niet
echt pro-VS was, om het maar zachtjes uit te drukken….. Met veel
leugens geventileerd in de westerse pers en politiek werd Morsi zwart
gemaakt, waarna het leger dus ingreep….
Bij die coup tegen Morsi zijn honderden
mensen vermoord, daar zij demonstreerden tegen de coup waarmee de door hen democratisch gekozen president aan de kant werd gezet…. (de coup waarover de westerse politiek en de pers durfden te jubelen…) Maar liefst 60.000 mensen werden vastgezet, o.a. daar ze aanhangers van de Moslim Broederschap waren, een groepering die door al-Sisi terreurgroep wordt genoemd (ook in veel westerse landen staat de Moslim Broederschap te boek als terreurgroep….)…. Sindsdien
werd en wordt elk verzet onmiddellijk de kop ingedrukt door al-Sisi en zijn kliek, ook een groot aantal mensen die afgelopen vrijdag richting Tahrirplein trokken werden onderweg aangevallen met traangas en ander geweld door politie in uniform en in burger….. Ondanks dat lijkt het er nu dus op
dat men het niet langer pikt en niet bang is om de straat op te
gaan zo bleek ook afgelopen zaterdagavond in meerdere Egyptische steden….
Succes en sterkte voor de demonstranten in Egypte!
Het volgende artikel werd eerder gepubliceerd op Middle East Eye en werd door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media:
Protests
Break Out in Cairo as Egyptians Demand President Sisi’s Removal
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September
20, 2019 at 6:44 pm
Written
by Middle
East Eye
(MEE) — Egyptian
activists held protests against the government of President Abdel
Fattah el-Sisi in one of the first demonstrations since the former
army general tightened his grip on the country.
Videos
posted on social media on Friday showed demonstrators gathering in
Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the site of the 2011 uprising that toppled
longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
Protesters also
gathered in Alexandria, Suez and Gharbiya to call for an end to
Sisi’s rule.
“The
people want to topple the regime,” shouted demonstrators in Tahrir
Square, according to a video posted
on Twitter, echoing the chants of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings
across the Middle East and North Africa.
#TahrirSquare
A
Middle East Eye correspondent in Cairo said as many as 200 protesters
heading towards Tahrir Square were “violently dispersed” late
Friday.
“No
deaths, but I saw about 20-25 people arrested and held in police
trucks. Some were released later. Currently downtown is full of riot
police and plain-clothes policemen,” said the correspondent, who
remained anonymous because of the restrictions on journalists in
the country.
Protesters
had taken to side streets, gathering in small groups chanting “leave”
and “down down with Sisi Mubarak”.
Tear
gas was used to disperse demonstrators near Tahrir, and dozens have
been arrested.
Most
downtown shops that normally stay open late Friday were closed.
The
protests began in the virtual space, as anti-Sisi
hashtags had
been trending for weeks on social media amid increasing frustration
with economic conditions and lack of freedoms in the North African
country.
By
the early hours of Saturday morning in Egypt, the
hashtag #ميدان_التحرير
(#Tahrir
Square) was among most popular trends worldwide on Twitter.
Friday’s
protests came after Egyptian actor and real estate developer Mohamed
Ali had posted videos ostensibly depicting acts of corruption by Sisi
and the Egyptian ruling class.
The
43-year-old Egyptian whistleblower has released more than a dozen
videos from self-exile in Spain, alleging that officials
misappropriated millions in public funds for their personal projects.
Over
the past 15 years, as the owner of a property company that contracted
with the Egyptian military on major construction projects, Ali said
he has had a front-row seat for all of it – and he’s speaking out
now because he hasn’t been paid.
It
was Ali who called for the protest on Friday after a football super
cup match between Al Ahly and Zamalek.
In
a video posted in the early hours of Saturday, Ali called on Egypt’s
Defence Minister Mohamed Zaki to remove Sisi.
“You
see how the Egyptian people are doing. I hope no escalation happens.
Please, your honour, issue an order to arrest Mr. Abdel Fattah
el-Sisi… I hope that you side with the Egyptian people,” Ali
said, addressing Zaki.
“We
must all stand together and forget any [disagreements] between us. He
must be punished.”
Ali
told Zaki that the army is tasked with the protection of the Egyptian
people, not an individual, no matter how important he is –
referring to Sisi.
Ali
saluted the protesters, saying Friday’s demonstrations helped
relieve his pain of the past eight years.
“I’m
happy. May God help you succeed. Patriots and brave – this is the
Egyptian people,” he said.
Reports
of mismanagement of public funds and extravagant presidential palaces
struck a chord with many Egyptians, who have been suffering
economically under Sisi’s austerity measures.
“Now
you can see families and friends who rarely discussed politics or who
had very different opinions agreeing on [Ali’s] statements,”
Noura, a retired journalist who wished to be identified only by her
first name because of political conditions in Egypt, told Middle
East Eye earlier
this week.
Noura
said she will participate in the protests that Ali has encouraged:
“We should not be afraid of the regime, and people should come
together to express their discontent.”
‘Pretty
Big’
Khaled
Elgindy, a fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the
Brookings Institution in Washington DC, said he was hesitant to
assess the situation in Egypt based on the social media posts of the
protests.
Still,
he said the eruption of demonstrations – even if they are small –
in several cities under such an autocratic government that has a
“zero tolerance” policy against dissent shows the growing
frustration of Egyptians.
“We
know social media people have a tendency to get ahead of themselves,
but the fact that even a small number would show up to protest in
multiple locations in Egypt, I think, is pretty big given how
repressive this regime has been,” Elgindy told MEE.
On
Friday, Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights
Watch, also said the fact that the protesters are risking their lives
to demonstrate against their government is a sign of the dire
situation in Egypt.
The huge personal harm these #egypt protesters are risking, given the near total ban on protests and viciousness of #Sisi government, is an indication of just how desperate conditions in the country are.
No justice, no peace
No food, no peace
No jobs, no peace twitter.com/ganobi/status/…
Breaking: hundreds protest in several cities across Egypt tonight calling on Sisi to step down. Police arrested masses. Sisi’s government has to respect right to peaceful assembly and protests. Enough blood, enough brutality.
The
protests erupted as Sisi heads to New York for the UN General
Assembly.
“Hey
[Donald Trump], your favorite
dictator is
on his way to NYC, keep him there, Egyptians don’t want him back,”
pro-democracy activist Iyad el-Baghdadi wrote on
Twitter.
Many
social media users changed their profile photos to plain red on
Friday in solidarity with Egypt’s protesters.
Sisi
came to power in a 2013 coup that ousted democratically elected
former president Mohamed Morsi.
Since
then, he has snuffed out all forms of opposition and jailed as many
as 60,000 dissidents.
Sisi
has also blacklisted Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist
group.
Early
in his reign, he showed that he would not tolerate protests, when
Egyptian forces killed hundreds of
anti-coup protesters in Cairo in 2013.
By MEE
staff / Republished
with permission / Middle
East Eye / Report
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