Thursday, February 10, 2011

Struggle against Mubarak killed in protests in the south of Egypt

Bloody protests against the regime of Husni Mubarak of Egypt in the south: in clashes between opposition supporters and government forces have killed three people and injured over a hundred people. Cairo - In the Kharga oasis town in southern Egypt, it is for days of heavy fighting between opponents of the regime and security forces.

In the clashes were three people killed and more than a hundred were injured, reported the TV channel Al-Arabiya. The police have used the 500-kilometer south of Cairo city of tear gas and fired live ammunition at protesters. The demonstrators set the local headquarters of the ruling party NDP and a police station and court house on fire.


The protests in the country were also exacerbated by a statement made by Vice-President, Omar Suleiman. Suleiman had on Tuesday expressed anger over the demonstrators on Tahrir Square in Cairo. If not, the demonstrations soon lead to negotiations, threatening a coup. After the message on Wednesday was known opposition supporters, people chanted in the Tahrir Square: "We will continue!" and "We can stop us from anyone." Suleiman's statement was a "threat of martial law," said some demonstrators.

let attempts by the government, the army with their tanks to advance to the yards of Tahrir Square, failed. Instead, expanded the demonstrations in the capital. Hundreds of people gathered on Wednesday as well before Parliament and before the building of the Ministry of Interior. In Tuesday night for the first time people had camped before the Parliament.

Suleiman called Mubarak "hero" Suleiman also lamented the alleged disrespect of the hundreds of thousands of protesters who demand a quick withdrawal of President Hosni Mubarak. Mubarak who recommend the retirement, "not only insulted the President, but also the Egyptian people." Mubarak was a "hero" of the war against Israel in 1973 have been.

The Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, meanwhile, has talks with the Egyptian leadership on hold. At the same time, the opposition group in Cairo on Wednesday renewed her call for a withdrawal Mubarak. "We can only speak with someone who recognizes the demand of the people for an end to the regime," said Essam al-Erian, a leader of the movement.

The Muslim Brotherhood's aim was not a takeover of power in Egypt. It is also currently does not intend to introduce its own presidential candidate. The movement had taken on Sunday for the first time in a meeting with Vice President Suleiman, was then but too many demands for unfulfilled.

As a concession to the opposition in Egypt are now several articles of the constitution be changed. An expert committee set up by Mubarak proposes to make to six articles of the Egyptian constitution changes. Among them were also two controversial articles that allow indefinite re-election of President and complicate the candidacy of opposition candidates.

Large parts of the opposition, including most of the demonstrators protest movement demanding, but an entirely new constitution. Al-Jazeera can send back the Arab news channel al-Jazeera can again be received with official blessing in Egypt. The government in Cairo was parked in front of more than two weeks after the start of the protests against Mubarak, the transfer of the programs of the channel on the Nilesat satellite.

Lifting the bar on Wednesday was not commented upon by the authorities. Viewers noted, however, that al-Jazeera had received over again Nilesat. Al-Jazeera reported early on at great length about the protest movement. The state's Egyptian television had ignored the demonstrations for a long time.

The Al-Jazeera's office in Cairo had been raided by secret clubs. Several of the reporters in the Gulf emirate of Qatar-based channel had been arrested.

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