Thursday, February 10, 2011

Mass protest in Cairo: the movement seems to be getting stronger

Egypt's government wants the country prescribe rest, but the opposition can get you down - on the contrary: The protest movement seems to be getting stronger, people travel from around the country to the demonstrations in Cairo. On Friday threatened a new escalation of violence. "Go away, Mubarak!" - "Enough!" - "Be not weary, do not be tired Freedom is not free!" The slogans in Cairo's Tahrir Square are clear: dictator Hosni Mubarak would be selling at.


In this Wednesday night, thousands people have persevered in the square. The protests threaten to abate, how to read here and there is? Not at all. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators were on Tuesday - and now is preparing Egypt's opposition before the Friday. After noon prayers, the opponents want to re-mobilize the masses: The call for freedom is yet to be louder.

But can the regime to the new mass demonstration? In Cairo, rumors are circulating that the Egyptian government does not want to watch longer, as the demonstrators put the political system to falter. From government is listening to want to tolerate the demonstrations only until Thursday.

Even Vice President Omar Suleiman has said enough of the ongoing protests. An officer standing next to a tank on the Tahrir Square, confirms: Yes, the Army think about "how to bring this situation to a reasonable end." What would that mean? Some protesters fear that Mubarak's supporters may interpret these rumors as a call to violence.

"We have seen how his thugs are at the beginning of the protests happened here in the Tahrir Square in front us," says the young activist, Ahmad al-Scharkawi. Still remember many posters with portraits and bloody images of the people who are here have lost their lives. Some speak of a hundred dead, others by more than 300, the check can not be.

"We will demonstrate in every case," The opponents do not be intimidated: "We will demonstrate in each case. On Friday and, if necessary, on other days so long, is assigned to Mubarak," said Ahmad Salah, an activist on the court. He was there even in the opposition Kifaya movement, which campaigns since 2004 for a direct presidential election in spring 2005, and organized demonstrations against Mubarak.

"Since when do we let our right to ban demonstrate? We have no one on January 25 asked for permission, and we'll continue to anyone asking for permission," he says. If it were up to the government anyway if all the demonstrations that have taken place, illegal. "We do not care about that." Scharkawi activist is convinced that the army and police will not intervene on Friday when hundreds of thousands of people come back to Tahrir Square.

"The only proceed against us, if we are few. But when families are in the crowd here, women and children, then the do not dare. To do otherwise would end in an unbelievable bloodbath." The fear of the violence of the regime has apparently disappeared for many Egyptians. The mass protest on Tuesday, it became clear that many of the demonstrators involved in the protest for the first time.

People from around the country traveled to Cairo. "I have been following the events in the days of television, now I've come with my wife and my two children to the see with my own eyes," says Said Hafez, who works in a hotel in Luxor, some 700 kilometers away. Vice President Suleiman was officially after a meeting with Mubarak assured that the protesters would be left in peace.

Mubarak stressed that Egypt's youth deserve "the reputation of the nation." It was adopted a decree which provides for, to protect the demonstrators and to guarantee them the right to freedom of expression. But representatives of the opposition on Wednesday expressed their distrust of the concession.

It is important to any event that would further reports on the situation at Tahrir Square. On Tuesday, the government inspectors had initially refused journalists access to Tahrir Square, but then she admitted, as midday crowds flocked to it. "We are confident that our goal, namely, free elections in a free Egypt, reached soon," says Scharkawi.

The promise of the Government of a peaceful transfer of power as he rejects all the protesters. "Mubarak tries to time to play, if we accept this, our movement will stop halfway." In addition, there was a risk that a new authoritarian rulers come to power, there should be no real elections.

Buoyancy were the protests by the release of the Google manager Wael Ghonim, on 27 January was arrested and was sitting twelve days in prison. In a television interview reported Ghonim impressive of his captivity. On Tuesday, he was hailed by opponents of the regime on the Tharir Square.

"I'm no hero, you are heroes," said the 30-year-old to the demonstrators. From abroad keep coming back debts to the regime: The U.S. government called on leaders of Egypt, immediately release all political prisoners. The Home Office should be instructed to "arrest, ending harassment and detention of journalists and political activists immediately." On Friday could show whether the pressure is large enough for the regime to Mubarak hunt but still fast out of office.

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