SitiWanMahani - Sambutan Mesir ulang tahun ke-40 Perang Arab- Israel telah dicemari oleh gelombang baru keganasan, dengan sekurang-kurangnya 53 orang terbunuh dan lebih 200 cedera dalam pertempuran antara polis dan penyokong bekas Presiden Mohammed Morsi.
Pasukan Arabic RT juga terperangkap dalam pergolakan di Kaherah, dengan pengeluar Ahmad al- Ashqar mendapat cedera di kaki kanan di daerah Dokki Giza ini.
Sekurang-kurangnya 53 orang terbunuh dan 268 yang lain cedera di Mesir, AFP memetik kesihatan kanan kementerian rasmi Ahmed al-Ansari sebagai berkata. Sekurang-kurangnya 45 individu terbunuh di Kaherah dan lain di selatan 5 ibu kota menurut pegawai itu.
Timbalan Menteri Dalam Negeri Ketua Sayed Shafiq memberitahu media tempatan bahawa keadaan keselamatan kini “di bawah kawalan” di Kaherah.
Sekurang-kurangnya 423 orang telah ditangkap di Kaherah dan Giza semasa pertempuran pada hari Ahad, di negara ini Kementerian Dalam Negeri berkata. Menurut laman Facebook Kementerian, 180 orang telah ditahan di Giza, dan 243 lagi orang telah ditangkap di pusat bandar Kaherah.
Di Kaherah, Mesir polis melepaskan gas pemedih mata untuk menyuraikan penunjuk perasaan pro-Morsi kerana mereka melangkah ke Tahrir Square, di mana penyokong-penyokong pro- tentera berkumpul untuk meraikan tahun 1973 perang ulang tahun. Gas pemedih mata dan birdshots dilaporkan menghantar penunjuk perasaan berlari ke arah barat Dokki kejiranan Giza ini. Polis mengejar penunjuk perasaan dan mengalahkan mereka sebelum menahan mereka, saksi kepada AFP.
Terdapat laporan tembakan berat, tetapi mereka tidak dapat disahkan. Ahram Online memetik ahli politik dan bekas calon presiden Bothaina Kamel memberitahu Aswat Masriya bahawa dia telah diseksa secara fizikal dan penunjuk perasaan pro-Morsi memecahkan tingkap kereta kerana beliau memandu melalui Dokki pada hari Ahad.
Tentera mahu melindungi sambutan ulang tahun, yang kini giat dijalankan di Tahrir Square, menurut wartawan Kaherah berasaskan RT Bel Trew ini. Presiden interim Mesir Adly Mansour menyeru orang ramai untuk datang ke jalan-jalan untuk meraikan apa yang dipanggil “hari kebangsaan kebanggaan.” Trew Mansour menyatakan bahawa tidak mahu melihat penyokong Ikhwanul Muslimin menyebabkan masalah semasa perayaan tersebut. Beliau berkata terdapat ramai orang di jalan-raya “dengan kecederaan agak teruk di samping dipukul oleh banyak orang-orang yang bergaul dengan pasukan keselamatan untuk menyokong tentera.”
Pertempuran juga berlaku di daerah City Garden di tengah-tengah ibu negara, di mana polis melepaskan gas pemedih mata dan menghalau penunjuk perasaan di sepanjang Corniche Nil, memaksa beberapa penunjuk perasaan untuk melompat ke dalam air. Bot polis telah dihantar untuk mendapatkan penunjuk perasaan.
Pergolakan dilaporkan dalam bahagian-bahagian lain di Kaherah dan di beberapa bandar-bandar lain, termasuk Alexandria, Aswan, dan Suez. Terdahulu pada hari Ahad, penyokong pro-Morsi terbunuh dan sekurang-kurangnya 2 orang cedera selepas pertempuran dengan polis meletus semasa protes berarak di bandar Delga, yang terletak 300 kilometer di selatan ibu negara.
Di tengah-tengah kebimbangan keganasan baru di negara ini dibahagikan, pasukan keselamatan dan kereta perisai telah banyak digunakan di bandar-bandar Mesir sebagai acara diadakan untuk memperingati perang Oktober 1973, yang dikenali sebagai Perang Yom Kippur di Israel. Kementerian Dalam Negeri memberi amaran awal bahawa ia akan “tegas berhadapan dengan” mana-mana keganasan semasa perayaan.
At least 53 killed, over 200 wounded as Egypt protests
turn violent – report
Egyptian celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the Arab-Israeli War were marred by a fresh wave of violence, with at least 53 people killed and over 200 wounded in clashes between police and supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
RT's Arabic team also got caught in the turmoil in Cairo, with producer Ahmad al-Ashqar getting injured in the right leg in Giza's Dokki district.
At least 53 people were killed and 268 others injured across Egypt, AFP cited senior health ministry official Ahmed al-Ansari as saying. At least 45 individuals were killed in Cairo and another five south of the capital, according to the official.
Deputy Interior Minister General Sayed Shafiq told local media that the security situation is now “under control” in Cairo.
At least 423 people were arrested in Cairo and Giza during clashes on Sunday, the country’s Interior Ministry said. According to the Ministry's Facebook page, 180 people were detained in Giza, and another 243 people were apprehended in downtown Cairo.
In Cairo, Egyptian police fired tear gas to disperse pro-Morsi demonstrators as they marched towards Tahrir Square, where pro-army supporters gathered to celebrate the 1973 war anniversary. The tear gas and birdshots reportedly sent protesters running towards western Giza's Dokki neighborhood. Police chased demonstrators and beat them up before detaining them, a witness told AFP.
There were reports of heavy gunfire, but they could not be confirmed. Ahram Online quoted politician and former presidential candidate Bothaina Kamel telling Aswat Masriya that she was physically assaulted and that pro-Morsi demonstrators smashed her car windows as she drove through Dokki on Sunday.
The military wanted to protect the celebrations of the anniversary, which are now in full swing at Tahrir Square, according to RT’s Cairo-based correspondent Bel Trew. Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour called on people to come to the streets to celebrate what he called “a national day of pride.” Trew stated that Mansour did not want to see Muslim Brotherhood supporters causing trouble during the festivities. She said there were many people in the streets “with quite severe injuries in addition to being beaten heavily by people who were mingling with the security forces in support of the military.”
Clashes also erupted in the Garden City district in the center of the capital, where police fired tear gas and chased protesters along the Nile Corniche, forcing some demonstrators to jump into the water. Police boats were sent to retrieve protesters.
Unrest was reported in other parts of Cairo and in several other cities, including Alexandria, Aswan, and Suez. Earlier on Sunday, a pro-Morsi supporter was killed and at least two people were injured after clashes with police erupted during a protest march in the town of Delga, located 300 kilometers south of the capital.
Pada Tahrir Street di Giza, tembakan berat sekali-sekala datang dari dua arah. Huru-hara - Bel Trew
Di tengah-tengah kebimbangan keganasan baru di negara ini dibahagikan, pasukan keselamatan dan kereta perisai telah banyak digunakan di bandar-bandar Mesir sebagai acara diadakan untuk memperingati perang Oktober 1973, yang dikenali sebagai Perang Yom Kippur di Israel. Kementerian Dalam Negeri memberi amaran awal bahawa ia akan “tegas berhadapan dengan” mana-mana keganasan semasa perayaan.
At Tahrir Street in Giza, sporadic heavy gunfire coming from two directions. Chaos - Bel Trew
Amid fears of new violence in the divided nation, security forces and armored vehicles were heavily deployed in Egyptian cities as events were held to commemorate the October 1973 war, known as the Yom Kippur War in Israel. The Interior Ministry warned earlier that it would “firmly confront” any violence during the celebrations.
Ahli-ahli Ikhwan Muslimin dan penyokong bekas Presiden Mesir, Mohamed Mursi berjalan selepas polis rusuhan mengeluarkan gas pemedih mata di sepanjang jalan di Kornish El Nil, yang membawa kepada Tahrir Square, semasa pertempuran di perayaan menandakan 1973 perang Mesir dengan Israel di Kaherah 6 Oktober 2013 (Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi run after riot police released tear gas along a road at Kornish El Nile, which leads to Tahrir Square, during clashes at a celebration marking Egypt's 1973 war with Israel in Cairo October 6, 2013. (Reuters/Amr Dalsh - think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
Mesir telah kekal dibahagikan berbahaya selepas tentera menggulingkan yang dipilih secara demokratik Morsi pada bulan Julai, berikutan tahun yang bergelora di pejabat. Rampasan kuasa itu diikuti dengan tindakan keras pada pergerakan Ikhwan Muslimin Morsi, bersama-sama dengan tangkapan pemimpin-pemimpin dan pegawai-pegawai lain.
Bekas pemimpin Mesir sedang menghadapi perbicaraan kerana menghasut pembunuhan penunjuk perasaan di luar Istana Presiden di Kaherah pada Disember 2012, apabila sekurang-kurangnya 12 orang terbunuh dalam pertempuran. Pemerintah baru Mesir juga menuduh Morsi bersubahat dengan Islam Palestin Hamas dan merancang untuk menyerang balai polis semasa revolusi 2 tahun lalu yang menumbangkan pemimpin terdahulu, Hosni Mubarak.
Mesir adalah dalam keadaan yang sangat tidak menentu, tetapi perdamaian kerajaan dengan Ikhwan Muslimin boleh menjadi penyelesaian kepada krisis dan membantu menghentikan keganasan, yang memenangi anugerah Timur Tengah wartawan Hugh Batu memberitahu RT.
“Ada kemungkinan bahawa Mesir boleh berubah di dalam ruang yang singkat. Mungkin tidak [dengan] kerajaan sekarang ini, kerana ia benar-benar adalah hanya tentera yang memerintah negara ini pada masa ini. Tetapi dalam beberapa bulan, apabila pilihan raya telah berlaku, akan ada kerajaan yang baru dan satu akan mengharapkan bahawa mereka akan terdorong untuk berdamai, “Miles memberitahu RT. Wartawan pergi untuk mengatakan bahawa “jika mereka yang dipilih secara demokrasi, mereka akan berada di bawah tekanan tempatan di dalam Mesir, dan juga [bawah] tekanan antarabangsa untuk berdamai dengan Ikhwan.”
Egypt has remained dangerously divided after the military overthrow of democratically elected Morsi in July, following his turbulent year in office. The coup was followed by a harsh crackdown on Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood movement, along with arrests of its leaders and other officials.
The former Egyptian leader is facing trial for inciting the murders of protesters outside the Presidential Palace in Cairo in December 2012, when at least 12 people were killed in clashes. Egypt’s new rulers also accuse Morsi of conspiring with Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and plotting to attack police stations during the revolution two years ago which overthrew his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak.
Egypt is in a very volatile state, but the government’s reconciliation with the Muslim Brotherhood could become a solution to the crisis and help stop the violence, award-winning Middle East journalist Hugh Miles told RT.
“It is possible that Egypt could turn around in a short space of time. Probably not [with] this current government, because it really is just the army ruling the country at the moment. But in a few months, when elections have taken place, there will be a new government and one would expect that they will be motivated to reconcile,” Miles told RT. The journalist went on to say that “if they are democratically elected, they will be under local pressure inside Egypt, and also [under] international pressure to reconcile with the Brotherhood.”
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