Time to bomb Egypt: Egyptian military kills protesters in Cairo

[Hannah Bell]

Egypt’s ruling military junta, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, launched a deadly attack on thousands of protesters encamped in Tahrir Square on Saturday morning. Security forces killed six protesters, while the Egyptian health ministry reported that 71 people had been hospitalized.

The attack followed a huge demonstration that took place in Tahrir Square on Friday night. The crowd was estimated at several hundred thousand, reportedly the largest protest since the fall of Hosni Mubarak on February 11.

The huge crowd in Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the mass protests that helped bring down Mubarak, demanded that the military regime rapidly hand over power to an elected civilian authority.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/apr2011/egyp-a11.shtml


Murdering peaceful protestors. where's the UN peacekeepers & the no-fly zone? why aren't we bombing the military?

[Amonester]

1. Because the protestors didn't "ask for it" (yet)?

I guess...

Greed. What a bloody mess. :(

[malaise]

2. They are very select

Thankfully an active African Unity is negotiating a peace treaty in Libya.

[tavalon]

3. Power corrupts

Absolute power......well, you know. Damn, I was so hoping that for once a military could be the good guys.

[themadstork]

4. Who didn't see this coming

The heroes of the overthrow become the villains of the reconstruction.

Hard to trust the dudes with all the cool bombs and such.

[ananda]

5. "testing the water for future oppression"

Geez. Whodathunk.

[blindpig]

6. The curtain on act two will open very soon.

The Egyptian Revolution has but begun, layers and layers of shit to be removed.

[raccoon]

7. Kick. nt

[Gravel Democrat]

8. ^^^