I have been silent for the last weeks because I had been busy with my research and a workshop, both of which I'll tell you more about later. I do not have time to give you a proper overview of events in Egypt now, but wanted to draw your attention to last nights developments for the simple reasons that besides Aljazeera and the Washington Post most media oultets are ignoring the events. And if international media coverage and attention does not step up quickly, those who are still protesting for a real democracy and real change in Egypt might have to pay an even much higher price than they have done already...
Yesterday large protests, supported by various Youth Coalitions and the Muslim Brotherhood were staged under the name "Friday of Purging/Clearance", some ten army officers joined the protests. According to twitter (try #Tahrir), AlJazeera and the Washington Post at night around 3 am the army cracked down violently on the protestors in order to detain the defiant officers.
Inbetween state media and army statements (on facebook) claim that it was thugs and former NDP members staying at Tahrir and attacking the army...
For an overview of events in the reason check out the AlJazeera Liveblog - also the blogger Sandmonkey keeps tracking/tweeting on events on Midan Tahrir.
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