Chronic Repeats ~ Massacre.

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       Wednesday 2nd May 2012 @ Abbasseya, Cairo

 "The  thugs who carried out the attacks were on foot and had their faces covered... [They used] live bullets, molotov cocktails, bricks and tear gas..."
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17920053 

At a guess, these thugs are on a mission armed with equipment akin to that used by security police and armed forces.

 http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/cairo-protest-violence-kills-20/story-fn6s850w-1226345318554
"There appears to be no will within Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to prevent these tragic events. After the weekend attack, the authorities should have been prepared for the violence."

The eyes speak, but of what ... victim questioning his fate or thug paid off ?~ it's difficult to see beyond the gore. Images like this begin to confuse rather than clarify.

However, one thing is clear: the people have no protection. Any peaceful protest is threatened by the infiltration of savage thuggery before it can resume any momentum of its own. Even for those who choose to remain in the comfort of their own homes, security in Egypt has become little more than an elusive luxury.

 

Among laypeople, speculation  varies vastly. Covert scenarios, conspiracies and orchestration appear to be  manifold so that confusion rather than clarification is the overriding predicament. Some believe thugs are a natural progression of an anarchic and misguided protest movement while others believe they are simply armed forces in civilian clothes or stripped to their underwear. Furthermore, there is a growing clash between imported extremism and regular folk. Egyptians of all generations are used to diverse cultural backgrounds co-existing peacefully in their communities but there now appears a growing rift in that very rooted ideology. Some believe it is due to Islamist extremism while others are convinced the divide is enforced through plain and simple funding. Perhaps it would be equally fair to say that many believe the two are not necessarily separate and that furthermore they can be exploited and used to turn the tide back to 'old regime'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiXrFCqpwT8&feature=share 

Dr. Mohamad Elewa is witness to events.

In an interview with presenter Yosri Foda, Dr. Elewa describes how armed individuals of a non-determinable source turned the hospital 'Dar el-Shifa' to which the greater number of the injured and dead were delivered, into a slaughterhouse. Upon entry of non-determinable individuals, a residing patient had his belly slit open which led to instant death. More often than not, accompanying victims and casualties are anxious family members. This appears to have allowed this insidious and unrelated entity to infiltrate the hospital grounds. The security police, armed forces and Ministry of Interior affairs were all notified immediately and no less than a dozen times but none appeared on the scene until events had severely escalated and innocent family of the injured and dead, grouped up by Intensive Care Units and mortuary were brutally gunned down. Dr. Elewa says  the scene was one resembling a civil war.  

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Nobody knows who is responsible.                                                                         

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  One thing, says Dr. Elewa is clear: 'Even if we were to put all conspiracies aside, where are armed forces and security police when needed?  Succinctly he adds: 'Why do the armed forces assume it is okay to rule us when they see it as unnecessary to protect us?'

The public prosecutor himself was assaulted upon arrival on the scene and the web of intrigue and deception grows so wide it engulfs every possible angle left open to question and the people's morale is like glass crushing under pressure. 

Civilians whether protesting or not appear to be capable of little else than to await more of the same, each time with a little more gore and a little more unfathomableness involved.

 But if the revolution has taught us anything it's that although spirits may be broken, ever new determination and cries for justice rise tangibly over and over again from the embers of anguish and horror.

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*http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/politicalcartoons/ig/Egypt-Cartoons/Egypt-s-Future.htm 

*http://latuffcartoons.wordpress.com/tag/scaf/

Yosri Foda interview submitted by Sh.elS 

Open wounds...

... find song buried in the heart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZyZlamUYA

"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people"

M.Gandhi.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZyZlamUYA 

"Culture of the mind           

 must be subservient to the heart." 

Egyptians have little if any confidence in Scaf's Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi's promise of a partial lift to the prevailing emergency law since it comes with a proviso that the lift cannot include the crimes committed by 'thugs'.. presumably such  individuals as depicted above, a protestor holding his head in his arms. A man able to do little more. The law mentions nothing of hired thugs or armed military personnel ordered to fire.

Cynicism prevails. And yet orchestrated transgressions continue to augment.

 Graffiti of Egyptian youths killed in clashes depicted on the walls of the capital Cairo [EPA]

With so much blood already lining a shrouded revolution, it would seem unlikely that the sacrifice comes to a halt before more blood is shed.  For those killed for daring to speak, for those doing little more than rightfully opposing unjust authority and for those who remain behind to carry forth the challenge~ no sacrifice appears too great.

And yet, with every new spurt of enthusiasm generated in order to carry the nation through these tempestuous times the odds mount up further and more ascerbically than ever.

Momentum shifts from a people's aspiring surge to a crush by military and regime that still controls only to be followed by another upsurge and another more violent pulverisation.

The end to the struggle is not in sight for unlike a match that may tie in the end, here there cannot be a draw. 

Until the people are seen to receive 'some' justice not even the fringes of reconciliation are likely to come into sight.

left and right, activist Salma Said, before and after. "An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so." M.Ghandi

                                                                                      (poster photo courtesy of Mahmoud Salem)

 

 AP Photo/Ahmed Hassan

The face of a casualty in the wake of so many dead, killed with not even their name to be remembered by those who pulled the trigger.

Managing profound grief and chagrin so deep is no easy feat, but the inimitable spirit that rises above cannot be suppressed.

Egyptians channel their fears, hopes and determination by tapping into a deep-seated, bottomless well of solidarity; a wealth of national spirit surfacing continuously in visible conviviality and artistic expression.

We may even go so far as to say that "expression" has become something of a religion to be practised vibrantly in Egypt today.

                             

Defiant and disparaging of the gunmen and their deadly ammunition, the following is a casually challenging address with the catchy chorus of: 'kharateesh kharateesh kharateesh, nasshin ya shaweesh!' Cartridges .. cartridges.. cartridges.. aim, aim & fire! fire! blast! blast! Oh soldier...!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR6lR1poKW_ys&feature=youtu.be 

 

 AP photo

Unlike blood-stained streets, tears and dreams are not swept away. 

Instead, find their way into endless song:

http://www.elgomhoreya.tv/ar/short/bahlam

(audio-visual links provided by Nadia Elkouni and through SaraH's ever-assimilating wall on Facebook)

Kick'em where it hurts

http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/02/eyewitnesses-police-stood-idle-in-egypt-football-massacre/

                                 photo by STR/AP

Is this how Egyptians can be quashed in their search for independence? For liberation of what the regime of old continues to dictate? There are so many ways to destroy morale, to make people wish the revolution had never taken place but unless we are hit by a bullet we will never know how unbearably tragic such a despondency would be.

The undercurrents that prevail throughout this revolution are like insidious parasitic creepers who with unlimited hooked appendages dig deep into the flesh of a throbbing living entity: Egypt. They sway the tide their way, money talks and continues to talk even when  sources are umasked.

If the rest of the world isn't already fed up with Egypt's plight, it seems only a matter of time before the price seems too high even for them. This is the very aim of the outflow, the sewage of those who fight surreptitiously, continuously, relentlessly against the movement for genuine reform.

In short: Egypt does not want to be at war with the world. Egypt wants a chance to stand on its own. Result: Egypt is dissed.

If the aim is to portray Egyptians as unworthy rabble then the perverse, guileful and perfidious tactics are indeed honing their efforts towards scoring a bull's eye. Egyptians cannot be seen as having any credentials and fortuitiously for those seeking to discredit them to the core: people quickly forget what they witness with their own eyes on a global scale. The slurs and distorted images soon begin to prevail in deep-seated anti-arab speculation. 

It may be a moral obligation for those who disagree and know what stares them in the face cannot be unfounded to feel obliged to give voice to their perspectives. Clutching at straws? Perhaps.

And yet, Egypt can but call on that.

Egypt mourns. Egyptian spirit that shone only recently yet again on January 25th 2012 takes the blows but cannot fall down to a count. And yet, the bloodshed that has been may only indicate more to come. Is the fight futile? The fact that it is a fight, a war between hope and despair perhaps says it all. 

Can the following link every be reviewed or labelled as outdated? Regrettably not. For one simple reason: It speaks the truth; it relays to fact, to history as it unfolds before our very eyes and most of us can but stand by and watch.
We would do well to pay heed and not ignore:
http://wilyawil.com/en/2011/11/video-noam-chomsky-thats-whats-happening-in-egypt
"And that's done over and over again. It doesn't always work, but it's always tried." "It's completely routine and that's what's going on in Egypt" Noam Chomsky