Sunday, February 13, 2011

The army cleared Tahrir Square Stolen statue of Tutankhamun

CAIRO - The Egyptian military chief of police told the demonstrators to remove the tents for more than fifteen days have become a symbol of protest in Tahrir Square. "We do not want no sit in the square today," said Mohamed Ibrahim Moustafa Ali, speaking with journalists and demonstrators as the soldiers removed the curtains from the square epicenter of the events of recent days.

In Tahrir Square were about 2,000 protesters. Most, in fact, went on Friday after the announcement of the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. The army tanks, positioned from the beginning of the protests at the entrance of the square, they are still in place but do not block access.

"I do not want to go there, we will remain here until the army does not accept our demands," said Nur Kewrsha, a student aged 24, who spent the night in Tahrir Square. "The army wants to kill the revolution, wants people to go away," said Abu Tasneem, a professor of French in Alexandria who is camped on the square for 10 days.

It meets the government. On the political front, the current Egyptian government held its first meeting today by the resignation of Mubarak. According to news agency Mena, the decision was made after the release of the supreme council of the forces that Armant announced that the government, appointed by Mubarak a few days before his resignation, he remained in office to take the current business "until the formation of a new government "The council of ministers will discuss measures to ensure the basic food products to citizens, security and stability," says Mena.

The Egyptian army, in charge of leading the country by the resignation of Mubarak, promised a "peaceful transition" towards "an elected civilian power" and assured that Egypt will abide by the treaties on regional and international "who signed. finds stolen. Eight precious archaeological finds, including a statue of King Tutankhamun, has been stolen from the Egyptian Museum.

This was announced by the Minister of Antiquities, Zahi Hawas. Among the items missing, a gilded wooden statue of King Tuntankhamon which is transported by a deity, and parts of another statue, also in gilded wood, which depicts the young king of the XVIII dynasty, while fishing with a harpoon on a boat of papyrus.

Ignoti looters had broken into the museum of Cairo, overlooking Tahrir Square, January 28, in one of the most violent days of protest against the regime of Hosni Mubarak.

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