Saturday, January 29, 2011

Unrest in Egypt: ElBaradei sits at the top of the protests

ElBaradei, the Egyptian Nobel Peace Prize has landed in Cairo - and wants to lead the opposition movement, if people want that. At the next he wants to attend demonstrations. He provoked the regime of President Mubarak. Cairo - Mohamed ElBaradei made his announcement true. On Thursday evening he arrived in the Egyptian capital Cairo.

The former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency wants to place himself at the side of the demonstrators. He offered himself as leader of a possible transitional government. On his arrival back ElBaradei had critical questions about why he returned only after days of protests, with several deaths in Egypt: "It is a process." Egypt stand at a crossroads.


The diplomat is considered a potential challenger to President Hosni Mubarak. He was returning to Cairo to support the protesters, said the diplomat. The youth in his native country was understandably become impatient. But: "The regime does not listen." ElBaradei stated that one of his employees had sustained in the riots in Egypt, several broken ribs.

On Friday he wants to take part in the demonstrations, during which thousands of people have so far been arrested. The opposition has called for mass rallies in Cairo and other cities. ElBaradei called for peaceful protests. The diplomat said: "I hope the government is doing the same." He called on the authorities to arrest any more protesters and torture.

"If people, especially young people want, that I cite the passage, I will not let it hang," ElBaradei told reporters at Vienna airport. "The most important thing now is to see a new Egypt, and indeed one that has been achieved through a peaceful transition." But not all the demonstrators have the same goals: some is about freedom of expression, another question that the expensive food is cheaper again or decrease the high unemployment.

The riots have no leader. ElBaradei is now the man to lead the protest movement? ElBaradei is considered one of the sharpest critics of the Egyptian government. He strongly supports the objections of his countrymen, who demonstrate on the model of Tunisians for days against the government.

They are the worst protests in Egypt since Mubarak took office in 1981. SPIEGEL ElBaradei said recently that the protests "mark the beginning of a historical process. What can the Tunisians should, but we also create Egyptians." The Tunisians had managed to blow up with weeks of protests in power Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali of the country.

Since the protests began on Tuesday were taken in Egypt at least a thousand people in custody, as a representative of the security forces on Thursday to the news agency said. Even more protests were expected on Thursday, which called in particular the pro-democracy "movement of the 6th April".

She called for the day of their first major demonstration 2008th Thursday would "not be a holiday," the group said on its side in the network Facebook. "The campaign to go on the streets is." One protester told the news agency: "We started, and now we will not stop." Despite a ban on demonstrations had on Wednesday again, many people gathered for rallies against the government.

In central Cairo, and Suez in there were clashes between demonstrators and police. The security forces used tear gas and fired rubber bullets, some demonstrators threw stones. The protests in Cairo continued until the night the police drove the crowd finally apart. A total of six people have died since the start of the demonstrations on Tuesday, including two police officers, 70 people were injured.

Given the situation in the country broke its stock market in Cairo, the prices fell by more than six percent. The trading was temporarily suspended.

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