Deadly clashes on the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution
By Mourad Anouar
Morocco News Tribune
Oklahoma City, U.S.A–Official media outlets reported today that seven people at least were killed, six of them in Suez, and hundreds injured after a series of deadly clashes between police and protesters on the second anniversary of the revolution that unseated dictator Hosni Mubarak.
Health Ministry spokesman Ahmed Omar told state-run EGYNews that the four killed in Suez had been shot in the abdomen and at least 480 people were injured nationwide.
Egypt’s interior ministry said that two policemen, Lieutenant Ahmed El-Balki and low-ranking police officer, Ayman Abdel Azim, have been reported dead in Port Said clashes.
Across a number of cities in Egypt protesters marched in streets in outrage over what they considered unfulfilled demands for reform and social justice.
On the other hand, President Mohamed Mursi expressed his sincere condolences to all Egyptians following the deadly clashes, which have roiled Egypt’s streets yesterday.
It is to note that a number of political forces and youth movements were preparing for demonstrations in the past weeks by distributing leaflets urging citizens to take to the streets in what they dubbed the day of “Toppling the rule of the Brotherhood”
The Popular Current Party leader Hamdeen Sabbahi said Thursday “We must show that the revolution continues” in an interview with privately-owned Radio Masr.
Also, the Egyptian Federation for Independent Unions, the Revolutionary Socialists, the Socialist Popular Alliance Party, the Egyptian Popular Current, and the National Association for Change, the Free Egyptian movement and the Kefaya protest movement issued a joint statement Thursday:
“We failed to implement maximum and minimum wages, nor were we able to remove the corrupt heads of many Egyptian institutions and companies,”