The army generals who replaced Hosni Mubarak are seemingly reluctant to give up power. You can bet that Israel and the US do not want free elections.
Assault comes day after street clashes killed eight people and wounded more than 300, marring the first free election most Egyptians can remember.
Egyptian soldiers charge Tahrir square
Soldiers baton-charged demonstrators in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Saturday a day after street clashes killed eight people and wounded more than 300, marring the first free election most Egyptians can remember.
Egyptian soldiers charge Tahrir square, beating protesters and burning tents
Assault comes day after street clashes killed eight people and wounded more than 300, marring the first free election most Egyptians can remember.
By Reuters and Avi Issacharoff Tags: Egypt Arab Spring Hosni Mubarak
Soldiers baton-charged demonstrators in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Saturday a day after street clashes killed eight people and wounded more than 300, marring the first free election most Egyptians can remember.
The violence highlights the tensions in Egypt 10 months after a popular revolt toppled President Hosni Mubarak.
Egypt – Reuters – December 16, 2011
Protesters run during clashes with army soldiers at the cabinet near Tahrir Square in Cairo December 16, 2011.
Photo by: Reuters
The army generals who replaced him have angered some Egyptians by seeming reluctant to give up power. Others back the military as a force for badly needed stability during a transition to democracy.
Protesters fled into side streets to escape the troops in riot gear, who grabbed people and battered them repeatedly even after they had been beaten to the ground, a Reuters journalist said. Shots were fired in the air. Television footage showed soldiers pulling down protester tents and setting them on fire.
The army assault followed skirmishes between protesters and troops. Some protesters had been throwing stones near fire brigade vehicles trying to douse a burning building.
The bloodshed follows unrest in which 42 people were killed in the week before Nov. 28, the start of a phased parliamentary poll that is empowering Islamist parties repressed during the 30-year Mubarak era, when elections were routinely rigged.
Voting in the second round of a tortuous election process seen as part of a promised transition from army to civilian rule by July passed off peacefully on Wednesday and Thursday.
Violence Video: Soldiers clash with rock-throwing protesters in Egypt
Egyptian soldiers clashed with hundreds of rock-throwing protesters in central Cairo for a second consecutive day on Saturday, in a resurgence of turmoil just days after millions voted in parliamentary elections. Soldiers hurled stones from rooftops and fired water from hoses in a crackdown that has left at least eight people dead.
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