Cairo - was supposed to be a day of protest, peacefully, in recent days. Screaming and shouting slogans against President Mubarak, pending a political decision. It turned into an inferno, with dead and wounded everywhere. Mubarak supporters against opposition demonstrators. Egyptians against Egyptians.
Piazza Thar, headquarters of the protest, the field of battle. In the square, on Wednesday, there were also supporters of Saddam. From early morning thousands peacefully invaded Mustafa Mohammud square, not far from the place of anti-government protest. "Here's the real Egypt - they said - there, across the river, the Islamists, the Muslim Brotherhood." With the day progressed, the number of people who flocked to increased visibly.
And there the decision. Direction Piazza Thar. At 14, when the first groups of supporters of the president come to access the square, protected by cordons of the other demonstrators and the army's armored vehicles, began the guerrillas. Screams, shouts and insults. From the second line parades flying stones and glass bottles.
The tension mounts. The military is looking to board the armored vehicles, without intervening. Panic broke out among women and children who attempt to exit from the square, many unsuccessfully, because of the confrontation. It is in this moment they appeared again the thugs of Saddam. You throw the cameras of journalists, beating with sticks, kicks and punches anyone who tries to take pictures or film.
They are not uniform and therefore can not be distinguished from the others. When the gate opens, enter in Piazza Thar. The sky is a carpet of flying stones. The screams of people who try to escape are deafening. On land there are injured covered in blood, but the battle goes on. Police check on the roofs, which for days had disappeared from the scene.
A sound of sticks and stones can roll back the square of the "fighters of Saddam", which are coming in and the side streets surrounding it. Who is in does not go out. The battle goes on. And ideas for new guns. Who does not fight has been piled in the center of the square. Others make the shuttle to bring luck to the hospital, which is usually used as a mosque, the wounded in clashes.
The doctors sew heads open cuts, wounds varied. The blood is everywhere. People are screaming in pain. "These are reforms that Mubarak has promised yesterday," yells a man pointing to a patch full of blood. Some girls treat the wound of a man who has just been given 34 points between the face and jaw.
There is also a 10 year old child completely covered in blood. The doctors are trying to do everything possible but not easy. I am thirty, all volunteers. The injured is also difficult to count them. Ambulances arrive, charge the most serious cases and leave. A boy is transported on a stretcher from the clinic of luck in the half.
He has the shirt covered in blood and staring eyes. A doctor covers it with a white cloth. It's already dead before arriving at the hospital. The battle goes on. With the fall of the dark strokes of a firearm are becoming increasingly insistent. Start the manhunt. Some people are caught and carried by demonstrators in the square.
Some More form a cordon to keep off anyone. Others, below, take them with sticks. They are accused of being police officers. All around you can hear the cries of battle. The rocks are everywhere. Protesters besieged inside and decided to fight. Outside, the darkness, to fight, there are any criminals with knives in hand, argues that the square had been "ESTABLISHED" by the police to fight.
The real pro-Mubarak supporters will meet again tomorrow. Egypt is collapsing. Cairo is on the brink of civil war. The government has kept silent Egyptian army is watching you killing each other, without intervening. Andrea Bernardi 
Piazza Thar, headquarters of the protest, the field of battle. In the square, on Wednesday, there were also supporters of Saddam. From early morning thousands peacefully invaded Mustafa Mohammud square, not far from the place of anti-government protest. "Here's the real Egypt - they said - there, across the river, the Islamists, the Muslim Brotherhood." With the day progressed, the number of people who flocked to increased visibly.
And there the decision. Direction Piazza Thar. At 14, when the first groups of supporters of the president come to access the square, protected by cordons of the other demonstrators and the army's armored vehicles, began the guerrillas. Screams, shouts and insults. From the second line parades flying stones and glass bottles.
The tension mounts. The military is looking to board the armored vehicles, without intervening. Panic broke out among women and children who attempt to exit from the square, many unsuccessfully, because of the confrontation. It is in this moment they appeared again the thugs of Saddam. You throw the cameras of journalists, beating with sticks, kicks and punches anyone who tries to take pictures or film.
They are not uniform and therefore can not be distinguished from the others. When the gate opens, enter in Piazza Thar. The sky is a carpet of flying stones. The screams of people who try to escape are deafening. On land there are injured covered in blood, but the battle goes on. Police check on the roofs, which for days had disappeared from the scene.
A sound of sticks and stones can roll back the square of the "fighters of Saddam", which are coming in and the side streets surrounding it. Who is in does not go out. The battle goes on. And ideas for new guns. Who does not fight has been piled in the center of the square. Others make the shuttle to bring luck to the hospital, which is usually used as a mosque, the wounded in clashes.
The doctors sew heads open cuts, wounds varied. The blood is everywhere. People are screaming in pain. "These are reforms that Mubarak has promised yesterday," yells a man pointing to a patch full of blood. Some girls treat the wound of a man who has just been given 34 points between the face and jaw.
There is also a 10 year old child completely covered in blood. The doctors are trying to do everything possible but not easy. I am thirty, all volunteers. The injured is also difficult to count them. Ambulances arrive, charge the most serious cases and leave. A boy is transported on a stretcher from the clinic of luck in the half.
He has the shirt covered in blood and staring eyes. A doctor covers it with a white cloth. It's already dead before arriving at the hospital. The battle goes on. With the fall of the dark strokes of a firearm are becoming increasingly insistent. Start the manhunt. Some people are caught and carried by demonstrators in the square.
Some More form a cordon to keep off anyone. Others, below, take them with sticks. They are accused of being police officers. All around you can hear the cries of battle. The rocks are everywhere. Protesters besieged inside and decided to fight. Outside, the darkness, to fight, there are any criminals with knives in hand, argues that the square had been "ESTABLISHED" by the police to fight.
The real pro-Mubarak supporters will meet again tomorrow. Egypt is collapsing. Cairo is on the brink of civil war. The government has kept silent Egyptian army is watching you killing each other, without intervening. Andrea Bernardi
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