Egypt's rights agency says 2,600 killed after Morsi ouster

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

CAIRO (AP) — At least 2,600 people, nearly half of them supporters of the nation's ousted president, were killed in violence over an 18-month period starting June 30, 2013, the head of Egypt's state human rights agency announced on Sunday.

Mohammed Fayeq, head of the National Council for Human Rights, told reporters that 700 policemen and 550 civilians were also killed in the period between June 30, 2013 and Dec. 31, 2014.

On July 3, 2013 the military ousted Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected president. Authorities launched an ongoing crackdown on members of Morsi's now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.

At least 600 Morsi supporters were killed on a single day when security forces broke up two Cairo-based sit-in protests on Aug. 14, 2013. Almost the entire leadership of the Brotherhood and thousands of the group's members have been detained, along with hundreds of secular and leftist pro-democracy campaigners who were behind the 2011 uprising that toppled Morsi's predecessor, autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

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[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Egypt had its chance at democracy. And blew it.

[cosmicone]

2. Lessons in this?

1. One cannot be an intellectual figurehead and distance oneself from the hard-line, rabid supporters.
2. One cannot try to be a hard-line fascist without support of the military and police.
3. A moderate populace cannot be converted to hard-line populace by slogans and force.

[happyslug]

3. This is from a GOVERNMENT run group, it admits to at least 600 killed by the Military coup...

ANd then they then padded the police and "civilians" deaths (Or more likely invented the term "Other civilians" so to bring the number killed by the police down, i.e. call these "Civilians" instead of Morsi Supporters and then pad the police dead so Morsi supporters are in the minority).