Dropped Charges For Mubarak Yet Another Moment in the Counterrevolution
Maged Mandour, political analyst for Open Democracy, explains the political and economic power of the military in the Egyptian state
December 7, 14
Transcript: SHARMINI PERIES, EXEC. PRODUCER, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Sharmini Peries, coming to you from Baltimore.
The dropped charges against the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak represents another successful moment in the counterrevolution to Tahrir Square. The military in Egypt has dominated the state since the 1952 coup d'etat, and it looks like it will continue to do so, but this time under the presidency of Mubarak's cadre, led by military field marshal el-Sisi, who is now president.
Crimes committed by state security forces against the protesters and activists, including torture, intimidation, censorship, rape, and murder, have never faced the justice system, military or otherwise. If you remember, one of the greatest targets of Tahrir Square demonstrators were the state-owned media area well. Well, the media remains state-owned and controlled. Not much has changed. And even the media outlets that popped up as an alternative during the Tahrir Square uprising have been vandalized by state police, and most of them shut down.
The current president maintains the repressive rule of the media. The notion that military came from people and that they were defenders of the people (signs that we saw displayed early in the Tahrir Square revolution) has faded into dismal oppression.
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