Egypt: 9 killed in Cairo clashes between Islamists, police

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By HAMZA HENDAWI and SARAH EL DEEB

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security officials say clashes between police and Islamist protesters in an eastern Cairo district have left nine demonstrators dead.

They say the Sunday clashes in the Matariyah area also injured 13.

Another protester was killed in similar clashes in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Two suspected Islamists were also killed in the Nile Delta province of Beheira when an explosive device they were planting under a high-voltage tower exploded, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

The protests were staged to mark the 4th anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak, and came a day after a female protester was shot dead while participating in a peaceful protest in downtown Cairo.



The coffin of Shaimaa el-Sabagh is carried out of the Zenhom morgue in Cairo, Egypt early Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. On the anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak, activists mourned the death of el-Sabagh, a 32-year-old mother of one from the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, who was shot Saturday in downtown Cairo while taking part in a gathering commemorating the nearly 900 protesters killed in the revolt. Activists blame police for the death and the government says it is investigating. (AP Photo/Ahmed Abd El-Gwad, El Shorouk Newspaper) ** EGYPT OUT**

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[Jesus Malverde]

1. At least 17 killed in protests on anniversary of Egypt uprising

At least 17 people were killed on Sunday in Egypt's bloodiest protests since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was elected president, as security forces fired at protesters marking the anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

Gunfire and sirens could be heard in Cairo into the night as armoured personnel carriers moved through the centre of a city where security forces had once again used lethal force against dissenters. A Health Ministry spokesman said at least 17 people had been killed at protests across the country.

The anniversary was a test of whether Islamists and liberal activists had the resolve to challenge a government that has persistently stamped out dissent since the then-army chief Sisi ousted elected Islamist president Mohamed Mursi in July 2013 after mass protests against his rule.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/egypt-tightens-security-anniversary-2011-uprising-070226982.html

[Rhinodawg]

2. "Islamist protesters" ?

How did they come to that conclusion?

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. These are Muslim Brotherhood supporters.

You may remember them. You know, the Islamist social movement/political party that played by the rules of democratic participation and won elections, including the presidency, only to be overthrown in a military coup supported by "liberals."

Egypt already had problems with more radical Islamist movements, namely the Salafis. Now, with democratic participation in the political process blocked, it seems like Egypt is practically begging for jihad-style trouble.

I don't especially like the Muslim Brotherhood. They're a conservative, religious-based party. But they should have been given a chance to govern and been defeated at the polls. That's what you do in a real democracy.

Long live pharaoh.

[Rhinodawg]

4. DOI

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.