People wonder would it be like down in the streets fighting for what you believe in. Well, It ain't pretty I can tell you that, but for many it's what you do!


THIS LINK IS AN EXCELLENT PICTURE STORY FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES:

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/world/middleeast/201101-egypt-...

 

 

"Egyptian people want to share a secret with you: peaceful revolt is for TV, real revolutionaries beat the hell out of police.”

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/0 ... ?ref=egypt

 


Updated: July 8, 2011

 

"i am 19 years old, male, from Scotland. Every-time I watch one of these videos about revolution in the east I am moved and almost brought to tears. I never even shed a tear at my grans funeral. These movements have inspired me to allow myself to feel without suppressing emotions. Keep this up. Spread it like wildfire until it reaches every corner of the globe, every nation, every home and let the world know that they can take our lives but they will never take our freedom!"




Egypt, the most populous country in the Arab world, erupted in mass protests in January 2011, as the revolution in Tunisia inflamed decades worth of smoldering grievances against the heavy-handed rule of President Hosni Mubarak. After 18 days of angry protests and after losing of the support of the military and the United States, Mr. Mubarak resigned on Feb. 11, ending 30 years of autocratic rule. The military stepped forward and took power. It quickly suspended unpopular provisions of the constitution, even while cracking down on continuing demonstrations.

On March 19, a set of constitutional amendments that pave the way for elections was overwhelmingly approved in a referendum that drew record numbers of voters. But anger over what many demonstrators saw as the military's loyalty to the core of Mr. Mubarak's government and the slow pace of change led to new mass protests and violence in April. In response to the protests, prosecutors have picked up the pace of investigation, jailing Mr. Mubarak and his sons and briefly detaining his wife for questioning over allegations that she profited illegally from her position.

The military's 18-member ruling council said it would hand over legislative powers after the parliamentary election in September 2011, and that executive powers would be transferred after the presidential election, which will be held by November. Many of the younger leaders of the protest movement worry that the long established and well organized Muslim Brotherhood could dominate voting, although the Brotherhood insists it does not want to become the ruling party.

Essam Sharaf, the Egyptian prime minister, has vowed to sack any member of the security forces accused of killing protesters during the uprising that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak.

"I have issued new instructions as a matter of urgency for the minister of interior to suspend any officers implicated in the killing of protesters," Sharaf said in a statement on Saturday. "I have also demanded a swift return to the highest levels of security on the streets of Egypt to make them safe again and give our citizens the dignity they deserve."

Sharaf's statement came in response to the renewal of mass protests in Egypt. Tens of thousands of people gathered in central Cairo's Tahrir Square and other towns on Friday in what many hoped would amount to a "second revolution" to speed up reforms.

The protesters called on Sharaf's government and the military council that has ultimate power in post-revolution Egypt to reform the country's security services, bring to justice police officers accused of killing protesters and put on trial Mubarak and other members of his ousted regime.

Late on Saturday, authorities ordered the arrest of three police officers who are suspected of torturing to death a conservative Muslim man they had detained in the wake of a New Year's Eve church bombing in Alexandria. Mohamed Sayyid Bilal was arrested during a police sweep in the city that focused on the Salafi community.

'Hundreds' of officers to lose their jobs

Interior Minister Mansour el-Essawi had already announced, on Thursday, that he would "shake up" the ministry around the same time that employees would be subject to their annual performance review. Hundreds of officers suspected of using violence against protesters would lose their jobs, he said.

Al Jazeera has learned that cull of ministry employees, which will go into effect on August 1, will include 18 generals, nine brigadiers and dozens of mid-level and junior officers. Osama el-Teweel, the head of police in Suez, has already been replaced                                                                                                               .New York Times Egyptian News

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