Egypt: Protestors want the military out!

[Duble Chris]

kumbe maana jamaa wanaachia ngazi

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

Egyptian soldiers beat with their battons a protester during clashes near Cairo's Tahrir Square on December 16, 2011 after demonstrators threw petrol bombs and set fire to furniture in front of the nearby parliament. The protesters have been camped outside the cabinet's offices since November 25 as they object to the military's appointment of a new prime minister, calling on the ruling generals to fully transfer power to a civilian government.

Egyptian soldiers clash with protesters near Cairo's Tahrir Square on December 16, 2011 after demonstrators threw petrol bombs and set fire to furniture in front of the nearby parliament.

Egyptian soldiers clash with protesters near Cairo's Tahrir Square on December 16, 2011 after demonstrators threw petrol bombs and set fire to furniture in front of the nearby parliament.

Egyptian soldiers beat-up protesters during clashes near Cairo's Tahrir Square on December 16, 2011 after demonstrators threw petrol bombs and set fire to furniture in front of the nearby parliament.

Egyptian protesters break the windows of the Shura Council near the parliament in Cairo on December 16, 2011. Egyptian soldiers charged at protesters outside the cabinet's offices on Friday, breaking up a sit-in after the demonstrators threw petrol bombs and set fire to furniture in front of the nearby parliament.

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

Huu kweli sijui nd'o tuite ushujaa au jamaa wamefikia kikomo na kama nikufa basi na liwe liwalo!

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[Ndahani]

Afrika bwana, wanajeshi na dola wanaamini majawabu ya matatizo yote ni matumizi ya nguvu na risasi.

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

Afrika bwana, wanajeshi na dola wanaamini majawabu ya matatizo yote ni matumizi ya nguvu na risasi.

Afu pia ukiangalia vizuri, Hosni Mubarak is still pulling the strings and ordering these beatings from his so called 'jail cell'.

 

[BAK]

Image of unknown woman beaten by Egypt's military echoes around world

The arrest and brutal treatment of this young woman reminds us that the revolution is far from over

• 
• • Ahdaf Soueif
  • guardian.co.uk, Sunday 18 December 2011 22.04 GMT

Egyptian soldiers beating and dragging a young woman during clashes in Tahrir Square. Her image has become the latest icon of the revolution. Photograph: Reuters


The woman is young, and slim, and fair. She lies on her back surrounded by four soldiers, two of whom are dragging her by the arms raised above her head. She's unresisting – maybe she's fainted; we can't tell because we can't see her face. She's wearing blue jeans and trainers. But her top half is bare: we can see her torso, her tummy, her blue bra, her bare delicate arms. Surrounding this top half, forming a kind of black halo around it, is the abaya, the robe she was wearing that has been ripped off and that tells us that she was wearing a hijab.
Six years ago, when popular protests started to hit the streets of Egypt as Hosni Mubarak's gang worked at rigging the 2005 parliamentary elections, the regime hit back – not just with the traditional Central Security conscripts – but with an innovation: militias of strong, trained, thugs. They beat up men, but they grabbed women, tore their clothes off and beat them, groping them at the same time. The idea was to insinuate that females who took part in street protests wanted to be groped.
Women developed deterrent techniques: layers of light clothing, no buttons, drawstring pants double-knotted – and carried right on protesting. Many of the smaller civil initiatives that grew into the protest movement: "We See You", "Against Corruption", "The Streets are Ours" were women-led.
But, a symbiotic relationship springs up between behaviours. Mubarak and Omar Suleiman turn Egypt into the US's favourite location for the torture of "terror suspects" and torture becomes endemic in police stations. The regime's thugs molest women as a form of political bullying – and harassment of women in the streets rises to epidemic levels.
Until 25 January. The Revolution happened and with it came the Age of Chivalry. One of the most noted aspects of behaviour in the streets and squares of the 18 days of the Egyptian Revolution was the total absence of harassment. Women were suddenly free; free to walk alone, to talk to strangers, to cover or uncover, to smoke to laugh to cry to sleep. And the job of every single male present was to facilitate, to protect, to help. The Ethics of the Square, we called it.
Now our revolution is in an endgame struggle with the old regime and the military.
The young woman is part of this.
Since Friday the military has openly engaged with civilian protesters in the heart of the capital. The protesters have been peacefully conducting a sit-in in Ministries' Street to signal their rejection of the military's appointment of Kamal Ganzouri as prime minister.
Ganzouri announced that no violence would be used to break up the Cabinet Office sit-in. Moments later the military took on the protesters. For a week Military Police and paratroopers had kidnapped activists from the streets, driven them off in unmarked vehicles, interrogated them and beaten them. On Friday they kidnapped Aboudi – one of the "Ultras" of the Ahli Football Club. They gave him back with his face so beaten and burned that you couldn't see features – and started the street war that's been raging round Ministries' Street for the last three days.
The protesters have thrown rocks at the military. The military has shot protesters, and thrown rocks, Molotov cocktails, china embossed with official parliament insignia, chairs, cupboards, filing-cabinets, glass panes and fireworks. They've dragged people into parliament and into the Cabinet Office and beaten and electrocuted them – my two nieces were beaten like this.
They beat up a newly elected young member of parliament, jeering: "Let parliament protect you, you son of … ". They took a distinguished older lady who's become known for giving food to the protesters and slapped her repeatedly about the face till she had to beg and apologise. They killed 10 people, injured more than 200, and they dragged the unconscious young woman in the blue jeans – with her upper half stripped – through the streets.
The message is: everything you rose up against is here, is worse. Don't put your hopes in the revolution or parliament. We are the regime and we're back.
What they are not taking into account is that everybody's grown up – the weapon of shame can no longer be used against women. When they subjected young women to virginity tests one of them got up and sued them. Every young woman they've brutalized recently has given video testimony and is totally committed to continuing the struggle against them.
The young woman in the blue jeans has chosen so far to retain her privacy. But her image has already become icon. As the tortured face of Khaled Said broke any credibility the ministry of the interior might have had, so the young woman in the blue jeans has destroyed the military's reputation.

 

[TIMING]

This is beyond unyama by any standards!!! why oh why did i open this one?

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

 

[Abdulhalim]

Duh, huyu ni mwanamke, wamevua burka na naona kuna njemba inataka kumtimba kwene chembe..si kitoto.

 

[Abdulhalim]

Afu pia ukiangalia vizuri, Hosni Mubarak is still pulling the strings and ordering these beatings from his so called 'jail cell'.

Huyu kibabu wanamtumilia tu ili achukue dhambi za waliomtuma, ninachojua huyu ni mgonjwa sana tangia kitambo na huenda hii ni danganya toto kabla ya kuwekwa mtu mwengine achukue mahali pake..sasa mechanism ni kuonesha kwamba kachomolewa na nguvu ya umma kumbe ni danganya toto ili watu wasistukie chezo.

 

[Timtim]

Tusishangae hata FFU wanafanya hivyo jamii inapokaidi amri. This time hayo majeshi yaliamua kuacha uswahiba. Wanataka 2012 waanze bila fujo kumbe ndio laongezeka.

 

[Kinyungu]

Askari zaidi ya watano wakionekana kumpiga dada asiye na silaha yoyote ambaye tayari wamesha mvua bui bui lake na kumwacha wazi huku brazia yake ikisetiri matiti yasionekane.


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Askari wakijiandaa kupiga dada ambaye wameshamdhibiti. Angalia kwa makini askari watatu ambao tayari wanajiandaa kushusha mafimbo yao tayari kumpa maumivu dada huyo anayejitahidi kujiokoa


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Waandamanaji wakiwa wamembeba mwenzao ambaye tayari mepigwa hadi hajitambui. Angalia kwenye magoti yake jinsi suruali ilivyo chakazwa

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Askari wakimdhibiti mwandamanaji mwanamke kwa kuvuta nywele zake

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Mama mtu mzima akiangua kilo baada ya mwenzake kuuwawa kwa kipigo kwenye maandamano jijini Cairo


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Askari mwanamke akimburuta mwanamanaji baada ya kumfunga pingu ili kumwingiza kwenye gari ya polisi inayomsubiri

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Mwanamanaji mwanadada akijaribu kupinga kukamtwa kwake na askari; huku askari wakimdhibiti kwa kumvuta nywele zake

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[Somoche]

Hawa waarabu ni wanafiki sana walisema Mubarak hafai sasa tena wanapiga makelele kwamba jeshi halifai!!

 

[Babu Anganga]

Maisha ni magumu sana kwao, ni vema kuwaombea amani ipatikane pasipo uwagaji wa damu zaidi.

 

[Nyalotsi]

Hawa waarabu ni wanafiki sana walisema Mubarak hafai sasa tena wanapiga makelele kwamba jeshi halifai!!

hamna kilichofanyika. Ni sawa na leo umuondoe jk aafu uwaache usalama wa ccm na policcm walewale. Walishazoea kula nyama za watu, hawawezi acha!

 

[Mamndenyi]

mmmh, vita ni noma.

 

[jmushi1]

Hivi hawa askari ni wa Isarael ama wa Misri?

 

[Nonda]

 

[Nonda]

Military police ‘beat and batter' protestors in Cairo | Firstpost

 

[Nonda]

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