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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Egyptians celebrated the anniversary of the 2011 popular uprising that dethroned long time Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak. Unfortunately the celebration took the form of more protests that left at least 17 dead.
The January 25 protests were the bloodiest since the country elected Abdel Al Sisi to office. According to reports from Petroleum Africa employees and sources on the ground in Cairo, security forces resorted to lethal force against the protesters and gunfire and sirens could be heard into the night.
A Health Ministry spokesman said at least 17 people had been killed in protests across the country.
It was not just protesters that died; reports from near the pyramids have gunmen in a car opening fire at a security checkpoint killing two policemen. There was also a bomb explosion outside the Cairo sports club that wounded two policemen. During the day, riot police backed by soldiers in armoured vehicles sealed off roads, including those leading to Cairo’s Tahrir Square, where the majority of the protests took place in the 2011 revolution.
The heaviest death toll was in the Cairo suburb of Matariya, which is a Muslim Brotherhood stronghold. Special Forces fired pistols and rifles at protesters, according to a witness, Reutersreported. Eight people, including one policeman, were killed, the Health Ministry said.
People in Matariya chanted “down with military rule” and “a revolution all over again.” Some threw Molotov cocktails at security forces and fires raged in the streets.
In downtown Cairo, riot police with rifles and plain clothes security detail with pistols chased protesters through the streets and six people were reportedly killed in protests in Alexandria.
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